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> I struggle to believe that someone would find it worth that much money to have a decompiled version of a game they also commit to keeping private.

The tone of the blog suggests they are using the game to build out tooling and expertise; the capability to decompile large projects on the scale of AAA games is not worth nothing, e.g. security or "competitor analysis" that lays trade secrets bare.

AI is a great at laundering code, I thought open-source software was the prime prey, but I should have thought bigger.



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