@jerry @hacks4pancakes My brain wasn’t thinking about the history of the auto industry. Good point. While the change is inevitable, the speed at which things are going seems troublesome as if we’re on the precipice of an economic bubble popping with no safety net. And the ones we had are being ripped away. It’s like a Moore’s Law of Outsourcing and humans won’t be able to keep up by our own design.

As for me, I see it. I’m now pivoting from just using AI as a user and diving deeper into to how they work and how they’re built. I wonder if by this time next year, every job description will have AI capabilities as a requirement.

@jerry @hacks4pancakes I’d like to add to this if I may. It seems there is a sweeping change occurring right now where even more senior staff are facing layoffs, downward pressure in salary driving positions to lower salary markets, and replacement by AI rather than augmentation.

It’ll be even harder for entry level to get a foot in the door not only competing with the privileged but the very experienced. I’m a senior looking and it hasn’t been an easy time due to “not good enough” for positions I know I’d nail. And I’m a lucky one still employed. A lot of the “shortage” seems to be for employers wanting a unicorn-dragon-pancake that is an expert in every facet of security for any role.

It’s easy to be discouraged with this backwards trend for employees whether it be AI or (waves everywhere), not just cybersecurity. But I’ll attempt to not digress into paralysis. Rather, how can we change this?

This article hits on the for-profit succubi that prey on the idea of “there be gold in them hills” and raises a problem we’re facing. What else can we do? I’m sitting here stewing and the only thing my brain comes back to is: unionize? Take back employee rights we seem to be losing in this age?

It’s easy for me to soap box that idea. It’s an entirely different and difficult task of bringing it to fruition. So what does that look like? What’s the catalyst to spawn macro-action? A talk on unionizing? Creating yet another independent organization that people can join as a resource for organizing their own union specifically in cybersecurity?

Asking for a friend.

@zate @hacks4pancakes these both sound like great ideas.

I get to outsource my time and energy to kids so ideas don’t even make it to my spouse to say no.