Why can't code be uncompiled? - eviltoast

I see a lot about source codes being leaked and I’m wondering how it that you could make something like an exact replica of Super Mario Bros without the source code or how you can’t take the finished product and run it back through the compilation software?

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    11 months ago

    This might change now relatively fast, now that large language models can process code, you could give the function to LLM to rename the function. Iterating over the code and rename all functions and variables.

    This won’t of course reproduce exact code, but it makes one really heavy part of reconstruction to human readable much lighter.