If AI now really can decompile every installed software, except web software (because it has no access other than the web layer),
I sense that 80% of the whole software market is now rendered
(illegally) copyable and adaptable.
No investment protection whatsoever.
2026 developments like RevEng.AI's Ventris model, OpenBin platform, and LLM4Decompile show LLMs recovering readable source code from binaries with high accuracy, outperforming tools like Ghidra on benchmarks.
This shift reduces barriers to reverse engineering, potentially weakening IP protections for native desktop and mobile apps by allowing faster feature replication and vulnerability discovery.
Latest example?
Adobe Photoshop for everyone for free
https://github.com/storytold/photocraft
I sense that 80% of the whole software market is now rendered
(illegally) copyable and adaptable.
No investment protection whatsoever.
2026 developments like RevEng.AI's Ventris model, OpenBin platform, and LLM4Decompile show LLMs recovering readable source code from binaries with high accuracy, outperforming tools like Ghidra on benchmarks.
This shift reduces barriers to reverse engineering, potentially weakening IP protections for native desktop and mobile apps by allowing faster feature replication and vulnerability discovery.
Latest example?
Adobe Photoshop for everyone for free
https://github.com/storytold/photocraft