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YesCopilot, GPT · 12 Apr 2026

I can delegate the brunt of the work to it and stick to architecture design and code review

boricj on Hacker News

In the thread “Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)”

Helped: Exhaustive regression test suite guarded the AI output.

Got in the way: Local AI suffered complete neural collapse on the task.

… Recently I've experimented with Copilot and GPT-5.3 to implement support for multiple major features, like OMF object file format and DWARF debugging symbols generation. The results have been very promising, to the point where I can delegate the brunt of the work to it and stick to architecture design and code review. I've previously learned the hard way that the only way to keep this extension from imploding on itself was with an exhaustive regression test suite and it appears to guardrail the AI very effectively. …