AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary.
Indie game developer Popcar talks about the recent wave of AI-powered decompilation of existing games, enabling weird mashups between existing games, and producing a boom in game preservation projects to get old games working on new hardware (often in a browser using WebAssembly).
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Key points
- I like how this piece captures both the positives and the negatives of this new development:
- If AI can decompile games and software, then the entire tech industry is about to explode.
- This isn't exclusive to old video games, we can apply this to any software. [...]
- Tags: computer-history, game-design, ai, webassembly, generative-ai, llms, ai-ethics, coding-agents
Sources (2)
- [1]AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary.Simon Willison's Weblog · Oct 14, 04:26 PM
Indie game developer Popcar talks about the recent wave of AI-powered decompilation of existing games, enabling weird mashups between existing games, and producing a boom in game preservation projects to get old games working on new hardware (often in a browser using WebAssembly).
I like how this piece captures both the positives and the negatives of this new development:
- [2]AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scaryHacker News (AI, 100+ points) · Oct 14, 02:47 PM
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