[sdiy] AI code generation

[Amos]

not quite "decompiling" as I had access to the assembly code, but I needed
to reverse-engineer the sysex encoding for a pattern dump from an old
sequencer, and I gave the free Web version of Gemini the pattern dump and
the assembly source for the firmware that generated it and said "please
ingest this firmware and look at this sysex dump, and write me a C routine
to decode the sysex to the original data format" and it did (with a bit of
coaching).  The original data format was undocumented anywhere, except by
inference from how it was handled in the source code. Saved me a pretty
enormous amount of time and headache.

On Sun, Jul 26, 2026 at 12:31 PM cheater cheater via Synth-diy <
synth-diy at synth-diy.org> wrote:

> regarding AI programming for microcontrollers, I wonder if anyone has
> tried using AIs for decompiling embedded code in synths, either old
> ones using 8 bit micros or the stuff running on newer DSPs, and then
> compiling it again with new features / bug fixes
>

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