Slashdot has reported:

The collaborative reverse-engineering site decomp.dev is shutting down because its administrator says artificial intelligence has made game decompilation so fast and accessible that the community’s human-driven model no longer works. The administrator, who uses the pseudonym Encounter, said it has become impossible to tell which projects are mainly led by people and which are done by AI, according to 404 Media, in a report cited by Slashdot.

Encounter wrote that matching decompilation was historically a “brutally difficult, time consuming task,” taking years for a moderately sized game even with several active contributors. Recent frontier AI models, including GPT-6-Astra, have changed the process, the administrator said.

“They are significantly better at following complex directions, cross-referencing resources for symbols or debug information, and writing natural code with enough guidance,” Encounter wrote. The administrator added: “It is now clear that, with the right guidance, human input, and code reviews, AI can expedite the decompilation process in a significant way. What is also now clear is that the community aspect of decompilation has been broken.”