Take a look at what is coming out of RSAC right now. All the big boys are starting to lean heavily into things like agentic SOCs, agentic threat Intel, agentic appsec. I've been in appsec for a decade now and honestly I get it, a lot of this bullshit can be broken down into agentic flows pretty easy, it's even more compelling when you have a program with uninspired security leadership (most places)

I know I've worked with quite a few compliance/checkbox programs in which the people running things don't even seem to see their work as security-oriented anymore so much as... I don't know, generic criteria fulfillment. It made me trust code or systems that claim to be audited way less than I did before. The people I've seen auditing things are not critical, curious, serious people. They're like most other people, waiting for the day to end so they can do something else. I hate to say it but I can see agents being more effective in many cases.

We're kind of hosed, aren't we. The more I think about how complex and challenging security is getting, and will continue to get, the more I want to pull an Admiral Adama and pull everything offline. I need an air gap.

It's been awhile since I've read Turchin but I'm pretty sure in his own examples elites are indeed employed in prestigious positions. Which is really his whole point, there are only so many prestigious positions. His example using musical chairs has always stuck with me.

as i said, nictoine is a non-factor. as for caffeine, i quit multiple times. once the headaches are gone, which takes a week or two, followed by another week, or few, of feeling lethargic, it is back to normal(ie. give it a month altogether). so it's not too bad. it might be also easier to wean off slowly by decreasing caffeine consumption over longer period than quitting cold turkey to avoid the negative effects altogether.

The future is wastemaxxing

Considering how disdainful our descendants may once look upon this time, we may as well hope it won't be remembered.

How is this different than giving a person requirements and asking them to implement something.

I dunno I gave mine root in a vps and am having it do security research, it's pretty sweet.

Here's my life hack: Caffeine makes my verbal fluency suck so I enter a self-reinforcing cycle of not wanting to talk to people. Nicotine makes my verbal fluency not suck so I naturally want to talk to people.

Because of this I do nicotine. Is this healthy? Probably not.

I've been hoping for something like a complete collapse of trust in the integrity and usefulness of the internet. Every time I see someone falsely claim AI where there wasn't any or decry the enshittification of (thing) because of AI I smile.

People need to wake up from this digital slumber.

So ask the students how they feel about AI?