The Long Tail of LLM-Assisted Decompilation
Hacker News
February 16, 2026
After rapid advances thanks to one-shot decompilation, progress on the Snowboard Kids 2 decompilation began to falter. This post explores the workflow evolution, tooling improvements, and fundamental LLM limits that emerged when tackling the long tail of increasingly difficult functions.
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Originally published on Hacker News on 2/16/2026