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AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary.

Simon Willison 14 October 2026 Yesterday
AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary.
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AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary. Indie game developer Popcar talks about the recent wave of AI-powered decompilation of existing games, enabling weird mashups between existing games, and producing a boom in game preservation projects to get old games working on new hardware (often in a browser using WebAssembly). I like how this piece captures both the positives and the
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