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YesCopilot · 27 Apr 2026

Copilot saved this project and I really mean it

boricj on Hacker News

In the thread “It's OK to abandon your side-project (2024)”

Helped: Writing tests, investigations, and large-scale refactorings.

… I also somehow got invited to present a poster about it at ACM CCS 2025 in Taiwan, an absolutely insane story (how many hobbyists are invited to present something at a world-class academic conference on cyber-security?) that while very enlightening also physically wiped me out. Copilot saved this project and I really mean it. Preparing artifacts, writing tests, performing investigations and large-scale refactorings: hours of grueling, soul-crushing menial work that I no longer have to subject myself to. …