This is one of my hopes for Large LANGUAGE Models is that they aid in JIT emulation of the "languages" of OSes and assembly between architectures.
The amount of software preservation that could occur by having LLMs port binaries to new architectures (and maybe do reverse engineering of the source code) is something that is well short of AGI, but would be tremendously useful.
Alas I don't think any LLM vendor will pay much attention to this, there is too much money in Javascript/HTML primarily and the other mainstream langs secondarily.
But LLMs should in theory be able to navigate the edge cases of doing things in different OSes / Windowing toolkits / etc better than straight decompiler/recompilers would be able to.
This is related to a big potential area for LLMs: porting legacy enterprise code to newer systems, just like this guy did.
The amount of software preservation that could occur by having LLMs port binaries to new architectures (and maybe do reverse engineering of the source code) is something that is well short of AGI, but would be tremendously useful.
Alas I don't think any LLM vendor will pay much attention to this, there is too much money in Javascript/HTML primarily and the other mainstream langs secondarily.
But LLMs should in theory be able to navigate the edge cases of doing things in different OSes / Windowing toolkits / etc better than straight decompiler/recompilers would be able to.
This is related to a big potential area for LLMs: porting legacy enterprise code to newer systems, just like this guy did.