Josh AlleyReverse engineering anything is now a commodity.
Video Game Reverse Engineering Community Shuts Down Because AI Has Made It Too Easy
A video game decompilation community disbanded after AI tools made its painstaking reverse-engineering work trivial, showing how automation can erase the meaning of skilled hobbies.
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