cR0w 
🏴☠️"AI is giving attackers a huge advantage!"
"Yes, it is. It's amazing how quickly it has destroyed dev, sec, ops, management, company missions and priorities, regulations, information literacy, and civil society, making everyone more vulnerable."
J4ck@cR0w Hi, yes. This is me. I am dev, sec, ops, management that has been destroyed making everyone more vulnerable.
Mostly dev, sec & ops... but there was some mild management in there (against my better judgement).
This is exactly the truth. AI is a tool. But it's a tool that has been given some kind of mystical authority over long term thinking.
@jackryder It's not even a tool though. It's more of a component. Like asbestos in brake pads. Or lead in paint. They made people feel like they were improving the product while in reality they were killing the customers and the environment.
A wizard did it 
🇨🇦@cR0w @jackryder Asbestos in brake pads and lead in paint did improve the product though. If they weren't so horriffic to human health, we would still be using them. Conversely, I've yet to see an instance where AI has actually improved anything. At best it lets people who are mediocre at their jobs output a higher quantity of mediocre work.
@Mustardfacial @jackryder That's completely fair.
At best it lets people who are mediocre at their jobs output a higher quantity of mediocre work.
But that is the "benefit" as seen by so so many people.
@cR0w @jackryder But that is the "benefit" as seen by so so many people.
This is unfortunately the truth.
RootWyrm 🇺🇦
@Mustardfacial @cR0w @jackryder exactly this. And they also were not DIRECTLY harmful. Asbestos wrapped around pipes is totally safe, UNTIL you disturb it or it starts breaking up into fibers. Lead paint is safe as long as it isn't crumbling because the lead content is fully contained.
Slop is immediately harmful for no benefit. There is no safe state. It only APPEARS to increase mediocre output when in fact it only increases DEFECTIVE output.
@rootwyrm @cR0w @jackryder Asbestos was directly harmful to the people producing the sheets that you wrapped around pipes, lead in the paint was directly harmful to the people producing the paint. It was awful to the factory workers themselves more than to the average consumer.
@Mustardfacial @cR0w @jackryder as a subscriber to multiversal theory, I sometimes joke:
Three dimensions over, scientists are debating whether it was ethically right to kill Hitler in the cradle.
Two dimensions over has a supersoldier that punches Nazis into other dimensions.
One dimension over, scientists are debating the ethics of exiling young HIitler to another dimension.
And over here we're going 'where the fuck are all these Hitlers coming from!?'
Jimmy
Troed SångbergI'm extremely good at what I do - belonging to that mythical home computer generation that started programming in ASM and never stopped learning how _everything_ works. To no one's surprise I'm thus working in cybersec today, partly as an ethical hacker focusing on hw/fw exploits at the really tricky low level stuff.
A few days ago I tested, for fun, having Mistral AI's Devstral-2 model do an analysis of a firmware dump of an eMMC I had just extracted from a fully proprietary ARM-based IoT device.
In a minute or so it had made the same conclusions as I would myself, nicely documented, on not just standard partitions and what they contained but also the fully custom stuff with no standard markers at all - including making "educated guesses" at the likely boundaries between headers and data, and what the data could be based on number of bits/bytes and entropy.
The question is whether you will now consider me to be mediocre.
@troed @cR0w @jackryder No, you're looking for a fight.
What's that thing Socrates said? "I may be the smartest man alive because I know I don't know anything at all"
Be humble bro.
I think the problem is with the "criti-hypes"* who believe they know better than everybody else (those "mediocres" of the world).
*) from https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/12/normal-technology/#bubble-exceptionalism
Darwin Woodka@Mustardfacial @cR0w @jackryder
That's the general idea, yes.