AI-Assisted Decomp Directory Shuts Down Amid Scoring Scandal; banteg Calls Repo Privatization a Mistake
banteg · x · 2026-10-15
banteg laments the shutdown of a decompilation-matching directory project, noting its creator was no Luddite and knew firsthand how transformative AI has been for matching decompilation. Reading the Wii/GC Discord, he sympathizes with the frustration: recent egregious cases included unverifiable completion percentages published from private codebases while displaying a Solana donation address — a textbook Goodhart's Law failure.
He argues that's a problem with the scoreboard, not the directory itself: decomp matching is one of the best applications of AI-assisted programming, with objective targets, verifiable results, and decades of software history to recover. What disappoints him most is taking the repository private, punishing the whole community for a few people's behavior.
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