Comment by northfield27
1 day ago
I agree with your POV. Technology has been improved exponentially and from a human POV having systems smarter than us can be good (if we have control over them but to think about that makes us smarter and powerful, but that's another discussion).
I agree with this but I just don't believe that the "promised AI" would be an LLM but some other technology.
> But specialized harnesses paired with frontier models are also better security engineers than I am, dollar for dollar versus my cost. They're better pentesters than me, for the relative costs.
Don't mind but some parts of cybersecurity are more brute-force in nature, where AI excels, but using that to claim frontier models are better security engineers than humans is a bit of an oversimplification. You are BETTER because of your expertise of X years in cyber security, and I can assure you that there is not frontier model out there with the context capacity to challenge you on that. And that makes you a 10x or even 100x more cost effective (dollar-wise). And your (perceived) cost will go on increasing with each adding year to your experience. AI can do things faster than you but your judgement on which subtree/direction to traverse while pentesting makes you a better than an LLM and the cost of this (human) judgement will increase day-by-day because other humans need other humans to take accountability.
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