AI-Assisted Binary Decompilation Still Falls Short of Readable Source
Despite abundant source-to-executable training pairs, current tools can't reliably turn arbitrary machine code back into fully readable, well-commented source code, because naming intent and design rationale are permanently lost in compilation and can only be guessed at. This leaves reverse engineers and security researchers still relying on slow, largely manual decompilation work.
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