THE COMMUNITY'S VERDICT: 'INTERESTING TO READ THEIR VIEW ON HOW AI IS BREAKING THE HOBBY'

In a ResetEra thread on decomp.dev sunsetting, the original poster highlighted the tracker, a couple of years old, whose completion-percentage graphs had become the familiar way to follow decompilation projects, and noted it is now blocking further submissions, keeping track only of existing projects, with the main browsable index gone. The poster called it interesting to read the site's view on how AI is breaking the hobby and the communities that formed around these projects.

The quoted statement says AI, with the right guidance, human input and code reviews, can expedite decompilation significantly, but that the community aspect has been broken as bad actors abuse the projects' open-source nature. Chief among the abuses is forking existing decompilation projects to finish them with AI, including projects whose teams do not want drive-by AI contributions, tearing apart the community fabric.