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Comment by ashdnazg | original | 500B Tokens Later: Letting AI Agents Decompile a First-Person Shooter
[−]ashdnazg · 2026-10-11 Sun 06:08 UTC · link
It's not really comparable. When decompiling you only care about a one time result. Code quality doesn't matter much. Stability doesn't matter much. Only whether the result is accurate. Once you have the matching decompiled code, all tools used until that point will be usually thrown away.

Normal development isn't so lucky, you do care about code quality. So you have to review the code the agents write and handle the testing yourself. The agents will not do what you want, they'll do what they think you want, and you're the only person who knows what you think.