Sol’s answer to “is it on GitHub?” is to decompile the whole app
xeophon · x · 2026-07-22
A joke about an AI tool named Sol: instead of first checking whether an app is on GitHub, it just decompiles the whole app.
The point is the absurdly overpowered, slightly reckless shortcut—an AI-native way of solving a problem that ignores the obvious human workflow.
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