Researchers release The Decompilation Book after GPT-6 aced their SRE-Bench challenges
abhi9u · x · 2026-09-10
Hugo Matousek, SeungHyun Sung, and Zhuo Zhang released the first three chapters of The Decompilation Book, a blog-post series paired with their teaching tool tiny-dec, inspired by The Fuzzing Book.
- It teaches decompilation from scratch with real code, explaining what happens between a binary and the pseudo-C on screen — a gap in beginner-friendly resources.
- The authors note that while building SRE-Bench, GPT-6 Astra solved nearly every challenge in the first version; a harder version is in progress.
- Motivation: even if AI handles reverse engineering within two years, curious learners should still have a step-by-step resource for how decompilers work.
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