Ask HN: How long before someone reverse-engineers Windows with LLMs?
cromka · hn · 2026-10-14
An Ask HN thread wonders when someone will clean-room reverse-engineer Windows 10/11, following the viral AI-built Craft suite that cloned Adobe apps. The author notes Photocraft drew a flood of merge requests within days and assumes thousands are already using LLMs to dissect Adobe software's inner workings — suggesting an open-source Windows would attract even more enthusiasm.
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