Python dev saved from disaster by intuition...and AI
**TL;DR:** Python dev saved from disaster by intuition...and AI
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What we know
Python developer Roman Imankulov nearly took the bait. The fact that he didn't can be chalked up to human intuition and AI code vetting. A person claiming to be a recruiter from a small crypto startup got in touch through LinkedIn, looking for help with what she described as proof-of-concept code that didn't work. The company, she explained, needed a lead engineer. As Imankulov described the exchange in a blog post, the recruiter asked him to look into an issue with a deprecated Node module.
Something about the request seemed off. "I'd heard, as probably all of us have, about those types of attacks," Imankulov explained in a phone interview. " So he took the unusual step of spinning up a VPS on Hetzner where he cloned the repo. He then used his Pi coding agent (running Codex) to conduct a read-only analysis of the code.
"I ran an agent to test how it worked, and I was almost certain that it would return to me 'everything is clear, the code is ugly but in general it's safe to run and just go ahead and perform your review,'" he explained. "To my surprise, almost immedia
Source: The Register
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Last updated: June 16, 2026.
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