honestly, claude code is sufficient good at analyzing compiled assembly that i just sort of assumed people had used claude code to decompile claude code before, and that there were probably discords and irc channels full of people hacking it (in the old sense of the word)
of course, an actual source tree is way better than the results of a decompilation project, but still. i think the importance of this is probably a bit overblown
The main thing I’d expect to get out of source vs. decompilation is the comments. Decompilation can tell you what the code does, but not what the author was thinking when they wrote it.
honestly, claude code is sufficient good at analyzing compiled assembly that i just sort of assumed people had used claude code to decompile claude code before, and that there were probably discords and irc channels full of people hacking it (in the old sense of the word)
of course, an actual source tree is way better than the results of a decompilation project, but still. i think the importance of this is probably a bit overblown
The main thing I’d expect to get out of source vs. decompilation is the comments. Decompilation can tell you what the code does, but not what the author was thinking when they wrote it.