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.
Solid advice, I’ve been using the “restore checkpoint” feature to go back to before it started trying an approach without totally tossing my context, and it’s certainly easier than arguing with it or ignoring its reminders to try X.