Kuna: Decompiler Development in the Age of Coding Agents
Today, I’m releasing Kuna, an experimental decompiler I’ve been developing over the summer while working as a visiting faculty researcher at the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) and a research fellow at Metalware. However, when I say that I have been developing, I should clarify that an LLM has written nearly every line of code in this project. Yet, as it stands now, this decompiler rivals the industry standard, IDA Pro (9.2), in control flow structuring on C programs: in recent benchmark results, Kuna achieves perfect structuring on 44.4% of functions, compared with IDA’s 45.7%.
- ▪Today, I’m releasing Kuna, an experimental decompiler I’ve been developing over the summer while working as a visiting faculty researcher at the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) and a research fellow at Metalware.
- ▪However, when I say that I have been developing, I should clarify that an LLM has written nearly every line of code in this project.
- ▪Yet, as it stands now, this decompiler rivals the industry standard, IDA Pro (9.2), in control flow structuring on C programs: in recent benchmark results, Kuna achieves perfect structuring on 44.4% of functions, compared with IDA’s 45.7%.
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| Publication time | Thu, 30 Jul 2026 02:41:16 +0000 |
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Today, I’m releasing Kuna, an experimental decompiler I’ve been developing over the summer while working as a visiting faculty researcher at the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) and a research fellow at Metalware. However, when I say that I have been developing, I should clarify that an LLM has written nearly every line of code in this project. Yet, as it stands now, this decompiler rivals the industry standard, IDA Pro (9.2), in control flow structuring on C programs: in recent benchmark results, Kuna achieves perfect structuring on 44.4% of functions, compared with IDA’s 45.7%. This was largely achieved through autonomous refinement: the LLM studies examples where it performs worse than IDA Pro on fundamental metrics, which have only emerged over the last few years.
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