The decomp.dev site, where people jointly reconstructed game source code, is closing: SI agents made it too easy
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Tasks that once took years of joint work by enthusiasts are now handled by an SI agent, and the communities around them are changing or disappearing.
According to 404 Media, decomp.dev's administrator, who goes by Encounter, announced on Thursday that the site is shutting down: in his words, modern models such as GPT-6-Astra follow complex instructions better, cross-reference resources and write natural code, so decompilation that took the community years is now possible quickly, and the "community side" has withered; telling human-led and SI-led projects apart has become impossible. The outlet writes that services such as decomp.wtf have also appeared that turn a game back into code function by function, checking each against the original. The information comes from the site's administrator through a single outlet.
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