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The AI reverse engineered his camera app and shimmed it onto his graphics chip

Reverse engineered the Insta360 Studio binary with AI and wrote a shim for his AMD iGPU so the app is usable.

How it works

  1. He reverse engineers the camera studio binary with AI
  2. Writes a shim for his integrated graphics
  3. The app is usable

Why it’s worth knowing

A shim is a polite argument with a binary, and it won.

Where it’s from

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

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