AI Is the Best Thing to Happen to Security
AI makes attackers more capable, developers faster, and attack surfaces bigger. The asymmetry between offense and defense grows - and that's why security as a domain is about to get a lot more investment.
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LLMs have been around for a while now. When Anthropic released a statement that nation state attackers are using Claude for attacks, I read it with a lot of skepticism. Back then, I had to beg models to invoke tools the right way. Passing a valid input to achieve function calling tool calling was painful. I couldn’t see how attackers were getting any real value out of these models let alone “autonomously” hacking the world. But over the last six months, something changed. Tool calling became a solved problem for larger models. Models started producing structured output reliably. And AI labs are pushing the same thinking and tool calling capabilities down to smaller models that can run on your laptop. That shift was massive for truly autonomous agents in offensive side.
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