50 DeepSeek agents pulled apart an old game's code and found over 100 new functions for 2 dollars

Ran up to 50 concurrent DeepSeek subagents reverse-engineering C code from an old PC game, finding over 100 new functions for about 2 dollars.

How it works

Up to 50 DeepSeek subagents run at once
Work through the C code of an old PC game
Identify over 100 new functions
The whole run costs about 2 dollars

Why it’s worth knowing

Fifty agents at once on one old game is a new shape of archaeology.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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