Recently, I’ve been experimenting with ‘one-shot’ decompilation, leveraging Claude’s headless mode in a continuous loop.1 The results have been surprisingly positive. In the three weeks since adopting this workflow, I’ve made more progress on Snowboard Kids 2 than in the preceding three months.2‘One-shot’ in this context means that Claude follows the prompt and exits. You hand it a function; it tries to match it, and you move on. The lack of a human-piloted feedback loop allows for significantly...