Accidental Tech Podcast · Thursday, August 6, 2026
Marco Arment, the developer of Overcast, revealed that a long-standing bug in the app's clip sharing feature, which caused video exports to stall, has been fixed. The solution was found by David Watson, who used AI tools to decompile the app's binary and identified an alternative API call that resolved the issue.
“What I had built was, as I described it, an automatic kicking machine. Like if you kick it and make it reset, it would often succeed. So I just built when I shipped the feature, an automatic kicking machine that would just detect when it was stalled, kick it and start it again until it succeeded.”
“David Watson wrote in a couple days ago to say, hey, I believe I plus ChatGPT and Claude figured out what was going on with your clip generation system and Overcast.”
“David Watson wrote in with a correction to my source code from decompiling my binary with AI and fixed one of Overcast's longest standing most obscure bugs.”