Opus took apart 3 rival audio products in about 3 hours and rebuilt them as a tested library

Opus 5.5 decompiled 3 competitor audio products in about 3 hours from one prompt, built an emulator to verify, converted them to a C++ library, all tested and sounding right.

How it works

One prompt starts the job
Opus decompiles 3 competitor audio products in about 3 hours
Builds an emulator to verify the behaviour
Converts them into a C++ library, all tested and sounding right

Why it’s worth knowing

Decompile, verify and rebuild used to be three separate specialist jobs.

Where it’s from

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

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