Last weekend I had it decompile the "Kitten Cannon" Flash game and then ran (what I believe was) an exhaustive check of the 36 trillion reachable launch+power+rng combinations to see what the longest run was (I got a little over 11k feet, successfully replayed in the Flash version).

It's so cool to see modifications/enhancements to nostalgic things appear for next to no effort as much as I want rather than be limited by the time I have for it.

As a thought experiment, how many companies do you know that make enough positive revenue to recoup development and marketing costs from a completely open source download that doesn't rely on something other than the open source software itself for profitability, like a proprietary component or some kind of hosting or network or human support service to drive value? I can think of none.

For everything else .. well, it's hugely useful to be on one side of it. I was just today getting codex to explain why the Mac and Windows versions of a library I am using behave differently, which it does by decompiling them. We've yet to see how this pans out downstream, but it's quite likely there will be some sort of retaliatory closing of hardware to attempt to fight it.

I want Animal Crossing to have an infinite world. I want it to be an MMO. I want the animals to have much better intelligence - for example, if I'm a bad neighbor, maybe they should team-up against me.

Zelda MMO will also be cool. It's just a matter of time. Like two weeks.

These are easy to do now. It's an amazing time to be alive.

I do wonder what this means for open-source versions of games, as in: could companies threaten with legal actions more easily now?

Thank you AI for ruining more of our tech freedoms.

This is the future I always wanted, full control over the hardware and software I "bought" but I think we will end up lamenting our moment of empowerment in one way as the time we lost even more agency in the end.

Personal computing is increasingly under threat by government and big corporations, we all need to be vigilant and fight back.

It is not a joke! The naming is so bad so it sounds like a joke. So people like the author assume it is a joke and move on without suing them. They are counting on that.

It traditionally involves investing incredible amounts of time and effort and intelligence, but what I think AI does most encouragingly is allows people to access more complex, more modern, more high-performance technologies and interact with them in the same creative and explorational way.

Over the weekend, I was curious about the state of open source touch-based HID support as it compares to the state of proprietary market leaders. I tasked an agent with decompiling and analyzing firmware blobs from the systems I was interested in, and now I have an early alpha version of the most robust source-available multi touch implementation.

There are obviously some legal and perhaps even ethical considerations worth reviewing before considering publishing anything like this, but we have reached the point that proprietary software is essentially open source.

In order do decompile you already need a game. If you usually buy games you'd still buy one. If you pirate games - you'd still pirate it.

So doesn't seem clear to me if there is a lot of lost revenue here?

And pirates don't really need AI do hack a game etc. All possible games have been on torrent trackers since forever.

Possibly ability to decompile and modify it would be a free marketing (from those who mod it and post videos) and only increase sales. Potentially what games should do is optimize builds for this so that mods can be easily created and shared - e.g. you buy a game and apply a bunch of mods created by ai or not.

The only reason I see is when it can hurt sales if some cool mod someone does can't be easily applied to original game and then you have no choice but to pirate it in order to play that mod.

It's surprisingly powerful.

I was shocked YC accepted my fully FOSS company, but YC and a lot of investors realize proprietary software is no longer a moat, and some VCs -exclusively- fund FOSS companies now seeing them as the future.

I cannot express the amount of joy and hope it gives me in this dark world that every proprietary binary anyone has ever found useful or entertaining is about to be reverse engineered and have all the tracking bullshit users do not want removed. Only useful or entertaining features will remain.

This is about to completely break a proprietary and surveillance obsessed software industry that deserves to be broken.

I am thankful to have a front row seat in Silicon Valley, and look forward to watching every single company be forced to Open Source or die.