Decompilation, agents, and the limits of the source-code analogy

POIDS, episode 3 of 6. French video series; English technical notes.

Decompilation produces an approximation of a program’s logic, not the original source project. Names, comments and design intent are generally not recovered exactly. Ghidra is one established reverse-engineering tool, with disassembly and decompilation capabilities.

Agents can help operate tools and inspect traces. That does not collapse three different tasks into one: analyzing a binary, patching that binary, and implementing a compatible replacement. A claim about one should not be presented as a demonstration of the others.

The connection to weight-space programming is conceptual: both involve investigating behavior through an opaque representation. This episode is an analogy, not a binary-repair experiment reported in the weight-space programming article.

References and scope

Ghidra — official project and documentation. The connection to weight-space programming is an editorial analogy.

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