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Always with you - AAA Clock. Great retro game included!
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Note VB4 doesnโt compile to machine code, it compiles to intermediate p-code which makes the exe smaller and simpler than a native one because all the low-level stuff is off in some DLL. So this is exactly the sort of exe youโd expect this to start working for first I think
This is insanely coolโnot just the Claude feat, but how dialed-in you are on the frontier of AI and code. Every technical founder dreams of a VC this plugged in. Menloโs lucky to have youโsetting the bar high for VCs. Taking notes 
Donโt believe everything you read on the internet
Great idea! I just grabbed my 1989 Tetris game (in C for MS-DOS) and had ChatGPT o1 convert it to JavaScript and add some retro sound effects. Pretty cool! chatgpt.com/canvas/shared/
This is absolutely insane but I'd believe it. Claude is the smartest machine in existence. It's got some weird superpowers.
Curious what `strings` prints. Exe might not be exclusively compiled machine code.
I would say that it was a P Code executable. If that were the case, it wouldnโt look much different that a decompiled npm these days. They compiled into P Code which used and interpreter to run them.
Almost exactly a year ago, I was demonstrating Claude to a techie friend.
Just for fun, I decided to attach what some (small-ish) executable in my ~/bin directory did. It was named "sl", but I had totally forgotten its purpose.
Amazingly, it said, the executable shows the ASCII
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hmmmโฆ. can, we, getโฆ windows shit running on osxโฆ port from the binary
sounds like a good tomorrow experiment - anyone who has tried this (without parallels) let me know
I just had a similar experience with Grok3. For the first time, AI turned weeks of effort into hours. I'm thankful for all of that time back.
This is actually really interesting to me. I have several old games in mind Iโd love to introduce my daughter to.
really cool, it does not understand binaries yet but def curious if i could take an exe file disassemble it and share the asm and ask for conversionโฆ i need to find my old projects pre git time
I wonder when an LLM will be able to implement FORTH on x86-64. 
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Here's my programming test for LLMs.
Create a FORTH implementation.
Implement it in assembly language for the NASM assembler.
Target x86-64.
So far none of these have passed it:
Grok 3
Claude 3.7 Sonnet
DeepSeek R1
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OOOhhh! What about MAME ROMs of classic quarter-eating arcade games? That would be interesting.
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So I could possibly upload my old Flash file as an swf and have it recreate the file contents as a javascript file?
Yeah, this is insanely cool.
I don't know how this worked here. But consider that AI can convert (easily) between programming languages. It can, for example, "compile" your C to assembler. It can then also do the reverse. And operating on binary files is then also a plausible
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wow, thats. ancient, in fact i started 2 code in VB back in 2004, my first project
And yet it can't fix a simple polling function on a React component. Go figure. 
Anybody have the binaries for BoulderDash (I saw it on the Commodore 128)? Yes, I have seen the clones. No, I don't like the clones.
Could this work for older Exe files and games that have the eve file as well as accompanying data and configuration files? Originally written for Dos?
sweet, going to try with a Dynamics GP installer l, saving the world from pseudo-hostile AI takeover, with the ineffable power of Dexterity
"What Happened Next Blew My Mind"
Perhaps, followed by disinformation from, and I am just throwing it out there, a Reddit bot? Are there some sponsored links associated with that account?
Perhaps the initial "I was a very skeptical grandpa" is a credibility hook?
the way you use one shotted here is making me feel insane. i have vertigo and need to sit down
VB is P-Code. That combined with the fact that Claude wonโt take an executable make me very skeptical.
VB.NET is MSIL code though. It is trivial to disassemble unless it was scrambled first with dotfuscator or similar.
I've found one of the better things LLMs are at is translation tasks like this, identical 'content', different library or language. I did one for SwiftUI -> UIKit and I was surprised how well it did it.
At this point every company that runs proprietary code should be shaking in their boots.
I can think of at least two multibillion dollar companies in different spaces that should absolutely fear their code binaries being reverse engineered like this.
Microsoft and SAP.
This man is still skeptical about AI? And there are many out there like him.
Wat in da hell. Super impressive. People dusting off their floppy disks as we speak.
After seeing this I asked ChatGPT to do a Python version of an MS-DOS program from 37 years ago called PC- Outline. Boom, not a problem. I still had muscle memory for the fuction keys in my fingers.
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That's impressive! The ability to recreate a 27-year-old EXE file in Python in under 5 minutes is a testament to the power of AI tools like Claude. It's exciting to see how AI can breathe new life into old code.
I have reproduced this myself. It sort of works but only because Claude is doing a lot of guessing.
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I've reproduced this with one of my old VB 3.0 EXEs. Claude looks at whatever human-readable text it can find in the file and guesses what the program does. Still a neat trick, but I don't see evidence it understands what the program actually does.
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maybe this could be used to resurrect a decent word processor & other quality desktop apps instead of the mobile crap we're being fed. imagine an xywrite for the 21st Century.
Holy macaroons! This and the 3d game built have me believing we have crossed the ASI point and just havent acknowledged it
.NET isn't really binary. You can easily decompile a .NET file, much easier than reverse engineering a PE executable.
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Sounds impressive. In this case the "game" is less than 100 lines total... what kind of game is that?
One of the low key most important ramifications of this tech is going to be finally being able to upgrade all the Cobol systems on earth.
Been developing a game for a while now and so far Claude is 100% useless for prod, I've done rope physics with verlet integration that I use for wires and capes and Claude doesn't understand any of that, here it probably just reproduced a toy project that was in the training data
This is cool. I often use claude to reverse engineer minified js code.
I give it minified code and ask it to give me human readable code and it does it.
I was trying to get a Dockerfile working a few days ago, with absolutely 0 knowledge of Docker & only the barest of coding experience, and Grok 3 walked me through every step, identified every issue, told me how to get it more info, then used that info to teach me how to fix it!
That's pretty cool. I was quite impressed when I asked deepseek to create a space invaders style game & convert it to html so it could be played on any device. It wrote it in python, produced the html, then was able to edit sounds and avatars as directed.
Visual Basic before the NET era were actually scripts + some runtime bundle in the EXE. They're technically not compiled. Maybe that's the reason why Claude was able to inspect it and reproduce in Python. But whatever, the outcome is amazing
Claude 3.7 has surprised me several times in the past 24h. I cancelled my OpenAI sub this morning.
thatโs not what one shot means, and when you read the conversation, it just created a Python game inspired by the file names and contents (Python games are copious in the training data data)
We gotta stop acting like this is anything other than a compression/retrieval algo
mine refused to do a simple count - must be a โlimited editionโ
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The CLR and MSIL has a really nice history behind it and youโll be happy to know that every an old binary written for the CLR runs on opcodes that are standardized so we can convert to instructions for other chips or languages very easily. This was an early goal for MSIL/
does this give us hope that we can run old apps that were shut down years ago in the win xp era...on a win 10 computer? i'm talking about a robust, complicated, powerful audio work station software (cakewalk, to be exact). thanx in advance
It's interesting but I would be more impressed if the binary was machine code and not easily reversed IL.
I asked Gemini to summarise the text in this screenshot to one paragraph
meanwhile I can't ever get this shit to write queries that have multiple joins and some window functions
Well.. having used Visual Basic quite a bit in the day, thatโs not all that spectacular.
Visual Basic apps are compiled at runtime. So the EXE file contains a loader followed by a bytecode version of the source code.
To AI this is no different than reading Python or PHP.
Can it reverse engine my Windows 11 installation back to Windows 7 please?
Classic BS marketing stunt. I so hate this click-bait title pattern: "I did XYZ and what happended next ..."
Never organic, just a click-me pattern.
Each time I see a tweet or video I insta-block the emitter account like saitizing the feed from spam, even if it isn't.
You could have simply said programmer instead of grandfather. Am 39 and have visual basic exe from my undergrad
sounds impressive.... especially adding the fact that he even used claude to draft the post talking about what it just did.....
โฆ.And then he got immediately banned for posting on r/conservatives by Reddit Mods
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I'm extremely excited for the transpilation use cases that these models can provide - it's like the ultimate transpiler.
How do we know this is a real person, and Claude 3.7 isn't just creating reddit accounts and shilling for its own greatness? 
Ask it "what are the first three lines of the assembly code" or "what is the command that launches <something>" and you will see it can't answer. It doesn't understand the code, and most likely doesn't even see it.
Can confirm. Did the same from old .com msdos demo. Read assembly figured what it did etc
Claude turned a 27-yr-old VB EXE into Python in 5 mins? Spare me the AI fairy tale, Deedy. Show the code or admit youโre just hyping smoke.
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For the confused, it's actually super easy:
- GPT 4.5 is the new Claude 3.6 (aka 3.5)
- Claude 3.7 is the new o3-mini-high
- Claude Code is the new Cursor
- Grok is the new Perplexity
- o1 pro is the 'smartest', except for o3, which backs Deep Research
Obviously. Keep up.
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ok fine maybe we'll do a social app
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GPT-4.5 is ready!
good news: it is the first model that feels like talking to a thoughtful person to me. i have had several moments where i've sat back in my chair and been astonished at getting actually good advice from an AI.
bad news: it is a giant, expensive model. we
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