"The community aspect of decompilation has been broken" by a wave of low-effort AI slop, and now a major community tool is shutting down
“opportunists have frequently raced to release a half-baked, barely-functional port from it.”
What happened
Decomp.dev, a site that tracked fans' line-by-line rebuilding of classic games' code with a progress meter, is closing. Its developer said people had been copying the volunteers' unfinished projects, having AI "finish" them, and racing out barely working versions first.