What’s happening in the AI-powered reverse engineering and decompilation is absolutely insane. Pretty soon all software will be de facto open-source.
AI is coming for everything and everyone.
Models are the last moat in software.
AI can train on essays and rewrite them. AI can decompile software and recode it. AI can ingest art and recreate it.
But AI itself doesn’t want to be “distilled.”
Expect more software to retreat to the server and resist “distillation.”
This is the doom I predicted a few days ago, coming for Photoshop. A clean-room open-source reimplementation.
No prizes for guessing that they decompiled Photoshop to source code, processed that to some kind of non-code specification language, then fed the spec to an LLM with an