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Dude really said "AI has caused all these problems and torn our community apart, but the problem isn't AI."

Oh, please.

Hate that it has to come to that, but these AI parasites have made it so explicitly clear that their intent is to steal work an deteriorate the scenes they infest that I don't know what else is really practical. Closing it off is probably the best call to protect the work being done.

Also just to be explicit- I have no expectation of any further work from any of you and am eternally grateful for all the cool shit that has been made already and if you all never release another thing again I completely understand

wherever it goes, I'd like to be a part of it making decomps the way you guys do has been a dream of mine for a very long time!

I anticipated the web would start moving to more closed communities, didn't expect it to take this form (although it doesn't really surprise me either) or this soon

Remind me to find another job once I finish my programming school because it's clear I won't continue to "programming" because of these "slop eaters" (that's what I call vibecoders) Game decompilation started in 2018... when slop exist in 2022, doesn't take long to ruin decomp with them.

I get where youre coming from but i meant it moreso in the sense that, at least as far as im concerned, now people see a decomp and immediately think "damn its probably ai" and pass it up because 90% of the time for the last month and a half it has been

Sorry you're probably gonna get a handful or more replies that berate this decision and don't respect the work y'all put in. It's a shame it came to this at all, more proof that some folks aren't worth the dirt they're putting us and themselves into with this AI shit

Additionally, we know that token costs are heavily subsidized, see: all of that debt. They will need to stop being subsidized at some point. So token costs have definite economic reasons to rise as well as plausible technological reasons for them to fall. (And this is neglecting externalities.)

well, that certainly hasn't started happening yet. these things are only becoming more and more capable with each passing day

This is a complete misunderstanding of how models work - it doesn't "poison" itself with feedback like people intuitively think, and the top models for a few years now have actually been trained on more carefully curated corpuses that largely consist of AI generations because they're more useful

The desire to keep going is the only thing that keeps me from throwing in the towel on this. Decomps and Recomps is what gave me the ability to make my adventures in video games personal and magical. The fact that AI wants to take that away, just makes me wanna fight even harder. Fuck AI.

I've worked with asmdiffer before and ObjDiff + dtk just make decompilation so much EASIER. encounter has done nothing but good to the scene, I can't believe people are saying he's replaceable just because of sunsetting the tracker.

Tbf he said it was "cloutchasers" not vibecoders or folks using AI. The post was the amount of projects getting added to the trackers by people who are not properly maintaining their projects.

I liked being in the decompilation community for the communal aspect and the puzzle solving involved with decompiling functions, but the slop storm had ruined both of those aspects.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWLj...

i wish nothing but terrible things upon vibecoders

gods, this is disappointing. loved what decomp.dev did for the community as someone fascinated by it(only as an observer myself, not a low-level/reveng person who has the time for decomping). sad to see a genuinely good project go like this. fuck slop and AI