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AI agents decompile a first-person shooter over 500B tokens
Original: 500B tokens later: Letting AI agents decompile a first-person shooter
An engineer recounts using AI coding agents to decompile a first-person shooter, spending roughly 500 billion tokens in the process. The write-up details the workflow, costs, and pitfalls of letting autonomous agents reverse-engineer game code. Hacker News readers are discussing the scale of token usage, the feasibility of AI-driven decompilation, and what it means for reverse engineering generally.
Why now: AI agents tackling a large reverse-engineering project at unprecedented token scale is a striking datapoint for the current AI coding debate.
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