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A comment on The 29th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) 2025 Winners. Parent comment

Re:The 29th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) ... by tgv on Sunday June 07, 2026 @06:22AM (#48433455)
I'm in the no-AI camp, but for this case, I find it interesting, especially since there's little obfuscated C online, and LLMs cannot infer intention from the actual code. Did you spot any entries with LLM support?

Also, the reverse is interesting: how well can they guess the function of the obfuscated code?

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Re:The 29th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) ... by Catloafdev on Sunday June 07, 2026 @07:59PM (#48439902)
If you're talking about frontier AI, they have no issue de-obfuscating any of these accurately.
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Re:The 29th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) ... by Chu4eeno on Monday June 08, 2026 @09:52AM (#48445354)
Yeah, Claude, Grok and Gemini immediately recognized it as a SUBLEQ VM (and worked out from there all the details), only chatgpt got stumped and just said it was a "visual simulator".

All the big labs have plenty of proprietary (i. e. paying PhD holders good money for writing stuff) and synthetic training data now compensating for the lack of "naturally occuring" SUBLEQ and similar stuff.

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