Dev clones a Microsoft app via AI + Ghidra into Rust in one shot, calls it piracy
teropa · x · 2026-10-08
Developer Dave Plummer demoed a full AI app-cloning pipeline: feed a Microsoft Windows application to AI, reverse-engineer it with NSA's open-source Ghidra into atomicizable actions, translate those back into Rust logic, and compile a brand-new app — all in one shot.
The pipeline: C code → compiler → linker → Exe, then Exe → OPS → Rust → compiler → linker → Exe. The result reproduces 100% of the functionality and appearance with none of the original code, only the logic behind it.
He argues this is neither coding nor vibe coding but piracy, and that AI app cloning should be (and might already be) illegal — with courts left to decide. The thread also ties into his own cross-platform task manager TMOG, which such cloning could threaten commercially.
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