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Stephen Jayakar
Personal blog · stephenjayakar.com/postsaiprogramming
Stephen Jayakar's personal blog at stephenjayakar.com covers ai and programming. Since 2024, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “AI is now a magic decompiler”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link these posts about using LLMs to assist with decompiling binaries into C code. The one comment here praises the use case rather than the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Software engineering, AI agents, game decompilation, distributed systems, and other things Stephen Jayakar finds interesting.
Most-linked posts?
- AI is now a magic decompiler2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-02-11
What Hacker News says?
IMO this is one of the best use cases for AI today. Each function is like a separate mini problem with an explicit, easy-to-verify solution, and the goal is (essentially) to output text that resembles what humans write -- specifically, C code , which the models have obviously seen a lot of. And no one is harmed by this use of AI; no one's job is being taken. It's just automating an enormous amount of grunt work that…
Comment linking /posts/magic-decomp/
on “The Long Tail of LLM-Assisted Decompilation”Submitted ChatGPT Isn't a Decompiler Yet as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI is now a magic decompiler as a story · 1 points
HN discussion