Burned 20% of weekly GPT-6 quota to reverse-engineer a proprietary format into a Rust tool
CtrlAltDwayne · x · 2026-10-13
The author nearly used 20% of their weekly quota running GPT-6 Astra at max reasoning effort, but in exchange fully decompiled a proprietary desktop file format and built an efficient Rust tool they plan to monetize — a case of heavy model spend translating into a real product capability.
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