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[return to "The unexpected effectiveness of one-shot decompilation with Claude"]
1. saagar+kpo[view] [source] 2025-12-06 16:02:52
>>knacke+(OP)
It's worth noting here that the author came up with a handful of good heuristics to guide Claude and a very specific goal, and the LLM did a good job given those constraints. Most seasoned reverse engineers I know have found similar wins with those in place.

What LLMs are (still?) not good at is one-shot reverse engineering for understanding by a non-expert. If that's your goal, don't blindly use an LLM. People already know that you getting an LLM to write prose or code is bad, but it's worth remembering that doing this for decompilation is even harder :)

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2. ph4eve+Rqo[view] [source] 2025-12-06 16:13:09
>>saagar+kpo
Are they not performing well because they are trained to be more generic, or is the task too complex? It seems like a cheap problem to fine-tune.
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3. pixl97+cuo[view] [source] 2025-12-06 16:39:50
>>ph4eve+Rqo
Sounds like a more agentic pipeline task. Decompile, assess, explain.
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