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Entry 005

AI in offensive security, minus the marketing

Where language models genuinely change offensive work, where they are theatre, and which parts of the workflow are actually worth automating right now.

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Mechanism
Model-assisted tooling
Reading time
1 min

What actually helps

Reading unfamiliar code, summarising a large scope, and drafting the report section nobody wants to write. All three are recall problems, which is what these models are good at.

What does not

Judgement about whether a finding matters. That requires knowing what the business loses, and no amount of context window supplies it.

The honest position

Treat it as a fast, confident junior. Useful, and never the last reviewer.