Reversing Super Mario Kart without source: decompilation is verifiable, and AI thrives at it
gandamu_ml · x · 2026-09-05
A developer shares how AI handled the heavy decompilation work in a Super Mario Kart reverse-engineering project, done without the (leaked) source. Key insight: decompilation is hard for humans but a verifiable task — you can check correctness by recompiling and running — and verifiable tasks are exactly where AI excels.
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