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The AI brought back code I lost 30 years ago

He lost the source code for his macOS 8 PowerPC programs three decades ago. The AI decompiled the binaries, turned them into a web app, and then converted them to Dylan with OpenDylan.

How it works

  1. Gives the AI his old macOS 8 PowerPC binaries
  2. The AI decompiles them and translates them into a web app
  3. He has the AI convert them to Dylan using OpenDylan

Why it’s worth knowing

Code he lost in the 1990s came back as a web app and then as Dylan code, from the old binaries alone.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

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