But this is access to source code. All source code is now essentially open. If not now, it will be in a few months. You aren't any more dependent on the models then before , you just have the source code of everything that compiles on your computer. What happens in the future is anyone's guess, but for all software published until this point in history, closed source no longer exists.
replyIt's "access" to "source code" as long as you can pay Anthropic/OpenAI and they don't raise their prices or lock you out.
replyNo I mean sure, if you want to decompile it yourself from scratch, but once anyone does, then the source code is available to anyone. So from that point onwards, no one is dependent on LLMs to decompile it again.
replyGLM 5.3, an open model, is also quite good at reverse engineering.
replyreally creeped out by the ai bro takes, specifically the ones "at least in a few months", almost as if there's no engineering principles anymore and just hype
replyEh, decompiling is happening now, at current LLM capabilities. The resulting codebase compiles into something that is functionally identical to the original. What engineering principles exactly do you need beyond "works exactly the same as the original product", in this particular context?
replyMy guess is we will be streaming everything in the future with whatever crap hardware they let us buy.
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