Which brings us to how AI (or, with one fatal exception, a particular breed of AI dipshit) ruins everything.

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This has two obvious consequences: those people get deep expertise on particular games, toolchains, and systems, and the group struggling against shared adversity in a structured environment will form a community that coheres under pressure and that can work effectively together.

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Determining *that* is the 20% of the work that takes 80% of the time, and it was being done, collectively and in parallel, by the very people who were doing the painstaking work of making the decomps match by hand, as part of *getting* them to match.

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A matching recomp, narrowly construed, only gets you the first, and agentic assistance here will be *very* narrowly construed. The task remains to work out which program constructs represent which game-level ones, how it fits together, and what computations *mean* beyond what they merely *are.*

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This is because program code is a very specialized form of literature. It has three parts: the raw instructions to be translated, assertions of what should be true about it, and an overall structure and specification of its interrelation with the whole. The latter two are *mostly* for other humans.

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