Okay, okay. I need to devote some time to catching up on genAI capabilities in a professional sense.
Security Researchers & SecOps - what's your favorite use case so far?
Also, what's a lesson you learned the hard way?
***Also - please save the snark. I'm tired, and this is a genuine, if hesitant, ask.
@neurovagrant alright I'll bite:
The only instance I've found AI useful: de-obfuscating obfuscated code. I use it for this because I don't know how to do it myself (because I'm bad and dumb)
A lesson I learned the hard way: Spending 3 hours trying to get a KQL query to work in Sentinel following instructions given to me by an AI, only to realize that the reason why it didn't work is because the primary table the AI gave me didn't exist, and had never existed.
@neurovagrant I should also point out that these experiences were discovered while I was still experimenting and messing around with AI systems when ChatGPT was first released.
I no longer use it at all anymore as I've discovered it's often faster for me to just research things manually, and at least then I don't get lied to. Also the number of research papers that have been released showing that AI use actively damages your critical thinking skills and effectively makes you stupid (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872v1, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001691825010388, https://arxiv.org/pdf/2407.14452) have put a bad taste in my mouth about the whole thing so I've decided it's a crutch I don't need.
@Mustardfacial yeah i'm well aware of the downsides, i am a deep skeptic, but the industry doesn't give a damn.
doesn't provide me much choice.
@neurovagrant I mean you always have a choice. The question is if you're willing to live with the adverse effects.
I'm not trying to sway you one way or another. You're an adult, make your own decisions. But you asked for our experiences and this was mine.
@Mustardfacial @neurovagrant There's two ways I think of it:
1) You usually have more leverage than you think, as a practitioner, to just not do things.
2) The tools bill themselves as being democratizing and easy to use, so the day the entire industry decides to force me to use them, I'm not worried about being able to pick things up quickly. I can't remember who said this, but: "prompt engineering" skills are really just basic reading and writing skills.
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