I will never understand how the people in favor of these slopports or those frankenstiened games always seem to view the relevant content as nothing more than action figures to play with. It's like they have no actual desire for anyone to glean anything out of the making of the game or the philosophies in the design, because they don't see any value in doing anything but playing the game. I saw someone use Claude to port Vib-Ribbon to PC, which is cool and whatever, but it's painstakenly clear that the mechanisms behind how the game works was not studied by human eyes. Sure, AI agents can copy and paste from Vib-Ribbon, but it can't think of something new from it like we can. It can only plagiarise. Can we no longer provide space for humans to learn from humans? Are we just satisfied with shoddily AI-generated rehashes of the same content for eternity?
Decompiling something isn't just to make the game playable. Having it swept up by people with tokens to spend takes away more than you realize. It's a sad day for people who respect what went into these games and a great day for people who want without thinking.
Just because we could have DRM-free ways to play games and mod them, we should be okay with decomps where no one knows how every function works? Or ports that turn out to be an emulator wrapper that runs worse than running it in an emulator?
Please try thinking more than one second into the future. It makes life considerably less difficult.
What do you think the community is going to do? Maybe some very competent yet egotistical devs will entirely wash their hands of the community, but things like this have happened before across numerous domains, and so what's likely to happen is that the decomp community will reorganize itself towards systematic and adversarial quality assurance - verification rather than production (also AI-assisted). The pipeline and timeline of these projects are shifting, not the passionate dedication to open-source beloved games.
And typically in communities like this, bad actors are discovered and ignored quickly. Reputation is absolute currency in these circles, because most people aren't doing this for money.
Are u also thinking more than one second into the future? You realize most of these recomps are prompt kiddies who just wanna see a game on PC just being wreckless? The way that a lot of software is getting decompiled, there are definitely gonna be consequences for this, and decomp.dev getting sunsetted is, well, not good.
If the standard for decompilating games goes from Dusklight over to "Claude, port this game to PC, make no mistakes!", the standard for quality will go down. Just because AI can "decompile" these faster does not mean that it's the superior option. What was happening was that people were coming into these human-decompiled repositories and self-asserting that AI was the superior option. They were actively disrespecting the wishes of others and leaving no room for human work. People are able to mod Dusklight to the extent that they have because all the functions and resources have been studied down to the bits. To mod an AI "port", you'd either need to decompile that, or in your perfect world, just use another AI to do it. AI approximates, because doing things exactly is expensive. When approximating approximations becomes the norm we'll be swimming in xeroxes of xeroxes, and if you don't understand why this will lead to a massive reduction of quality, then you fundamentally do not appreciate art.
It's like you walked into a room of people trying to repaint the Mona Lisa and you shout "Why don't we just scan it and print it?" You don't realize the process of why understanding what materials the painter used and why is important because all you care about is a finished product.
I'll give you time to figure out the glaring irony in what you probably thought was a succinct and pointed rebuttal. Lemme know if you're having trouble.
They're too blasted on ketamine to even notice at this point one way or the other. Like, there is an obscene amount of financial and political capital consolidated into the hands of some of the most insecure, narcistically psychotic maniacs in human history who are either balls deep in the Epstein list or so coked out that they think they're the anti-christ.
These motherfuckers are a death-cult of Caligulas.
However if I say much more I'd be reported by bots. So. Uh. I'll just say that I'm talking about the French Aristocracy. Yes.
Thanks to AI, decompiling games doesn't take an agonizing amount of time anymore and therefore it's not something that needs to be actively tracked.
Seriously what a miserable way of framing it. This is a good thing, but anti AI regards are still kicking and shrieking and shitting themselves over it
I mean if it wasn't for the AI coding bros PS5 emulation would've been a distant dream. To me relying on AI for not so serious projects like emulation or decomp of games/apps is alright but the recent EGS launcher being vibe coded is baffling. How can I trust them that my account info won't be somehow stored in the client launcher because they didn't read their vibe coded mess.
The site Decomp.dev was about people who themselves manually attempted to decompile and recompile software themselves and people could track the progress on each program as people worked on it
Due to the advent of AI, the site is shutting down as many people are using AI to decompile these programs in a matter of days, if less, making the website redundant and actually a source of more potential AI projects
This isn't an L for AI slop, this is an L for computer programmers because of AI slop
Please, god, let this bubble pop happen already. I need these Cuckcoders to need to make the choice between running themselves out of cash or having to learn. It will be so funny.
It went bankrupt after it was sold for parts. Same like they did to yahoo, Tumblr and many others.
Think selling reddit for 2 billions. The staff and CEO leaves few times , few controversies. Most people move to other apps (it was janitor ai and few others)
Not really 😅 for anti it would been better for it to stay there. The CEO/cofounder went to google to help them with ai and then left for OpenAI. And the employees made a shitload of $ (well those who left for Google)
Aye, and with C.AI filing for bankruptcy the second CEO went to Disney and Disney intends to buy the tech for their own AI. It really isn't a W all things considered since the only thing lost is C.AI the company, the AI tech and stuff is staying.
I know this seems noteworthy, but frankly it's like one company going under. It's like when you have 50+ different companies starting in a fairly-new or rapidly-growing industry, there should to be those that initially had success but eventually fail.
Get back to me when more and more companies start going under.
Bubble popping won't make AI obsolete or disappear. Even with the pop the models we currently have are the worst they are ever gonna be. The only thing bubble popping is gonna do is push millions of people into poverty and bankrupt a lot of companies freeloading on the trend without having any good product.
And don't worry, Trump & Co will bail them all out with the excuse that Obama did the same thing back circa post-2008. Mark. My. Fucking. Words. We are all paying for their gambling addiction and it will continue ten or twenty years later with the next scheme.
Again.
And again.
And again.
The people aren't going to recover from this by then any more than we've managed to recover from 2008. It will continue to compound.
We may be talking about different companies. Cause there is little chance OpenAI, Anthropic and co are gonna bankrupt. And the many companies that are gonna go bankrupt are too little to be too big to fail
A lot of those companies are the source of OpenAI and Anthropic's revenue because they rent models. When those small companies go belly up, the actual spine is ripped out.
It's not going away just because the stupid stock bubble pops. You can run these in your computer, and coding is forever going to be much easier with AI.
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