AI makes game decompilation too easy, community shuts down

decomp.dev, a collaborative website for video game reverse engineering, decompiling, and modifying, is shutting down. the community aspect of decompilation has been broken by ai, which can now expedite the decompilation process with the right guidance. recent frontier ai models like gpt-6-astra have made it trivially easy to decompile a game, allowing anyone with an ai subscription to create a basic port or static recompilation. this has led to hostile forks of human-led projects and a hollow numbers game, where people burn tokens to make numbers go up. the end of decomp.dev is symptomatic of a broader trend in ai, where it has become easy to make functional clones of software in a copyright grey zone.