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Re:DOS Game "F-15 Strike Eagle II" reversing project needs D... by Waterluvian on Saturday June 20, 2026 @12:12PM (#48610353)
Does AI fit well in trying to reason about the structure of a decompiled project when you lack symbol names?

This isn’t my wheelhouse but I was surprised just how well AI could figure out the intent of the structure of some JavaScript where I had no source maps.

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Re:DOS Game "F-15 Strike Eagle II" reversing project needs D... by AJenbo on Saturday June 20, 2026 @12:45PM (#48610663)
Yes it's very helpful
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Re:DOS Game "F-15 Strike Eagle II" reversing project needs D... by kriztw on Saturday June 20, 2026 @07:08PM (#48613884)
AI is superhuman at reading and understanding assembly, it doesn't care much about if it's decompiled or has symbols, that just makes it a bit slower. In some cases it can even understand heavily obfuscated control flow directly without using tools.
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