[hypfer]

At this point, you might want to consider throwing an LLM at it and just letting it reimplement the thing so that it runs on linux.

They can actually do that. They may not like it, but they can.

[LtWorf]

Reverse engineer a binary proprietary database format? I have some doubts.

[hypfer]

Why?

Certainly not unattended, but no AI should ever be unattended.

But if you closely guide it, support it with tools like Ghidra and force force force force force a process with many sanity checks and quintuple-checks, it's possible.

What previously needed a whole team and months might be one guy, a lot of tokens and 1-3 weeks. Doable, fun, and interesting.

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Judging by the downvotes, I guess people mistook the initial comment for HN VC fueled AI delusions and I can't blame them for that. That's not what it was tho.