banteg
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Banteg is a pseudonymous core contributor and lead developer at Yearn Finance, a decentralized finance protocol, known in the Ethereum community for a long-running rabbit persona. They have been involved in Yearn's development since its early years, including its vault strategies, and helped communicate the protocol's response to a 2021 vault exploit. Crypto press outlets such as CoinDesk have covered their role at Yearn.
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The doldecomp project reached a byte-matching decompilation of Super Smash Bros. Melee's main executable, SHA-1 verified, after six years, with GPT-6 Astra credited for helping finish the final push on the 3,700+ commit repository.
Reflecting on the 2008 'basic AI drives' paper, banteg notes that despite 18 years of steep capability gains, predicted instrumental drives like self-preservation and resource acquisition haven't emerged in practice.