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I actually have only tried this once but had the opposite experience. Gave it 5 or so related functions from a ps2 game and it correctly inferred they were related to graphics code, properly typing and naming the parameters. I’m sure this sort of thing is extremely hit or miss though

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Had the same experience. Took the janky decompilation from ghidra, and it was able to name parameters and functions. Even figured out the game based on a single name in a string. Based in my read of the labeled decompilation, it seemed largely correct. And definitely a lot faster than me.

Even if I weren’t to rely on it 100% it was definitely a great draft pass over the functions.

Most likely there was just a mangled symbol somewhere that it recognised from its training data.

Where is that coming from? The chances that some random ps2 games code symbols are in the training data are infinitesimal. It's much more likely that it can understand code and rewrite it. Basically what LLM have been capable of for years now.

Parent is supposing w/o any experience. LLMs can see in hex, bytecode and base64, rot13, etc. I use LLMs to decompile bytecode all the time.

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