AI decompiles Super Mario Kart without source: verifiable tasks are RL gold
gandamu_ml · x · 2026-09-05
A developer explains how he reconstructed Super Mario Kart's logic without source code using decompilation, arguing that while decompiling is hard for humans, it's a verifiable task — making it ideal for building RL environments. He notes some of the model's post-training was very likely set up to optimize for correct decompilation, which explains why AI thrives at this kind of work.
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