AI

Everyone is shouting about AI in security. Vendors promise “AI-powered threat detection” on every slide deck. LinkedIn gurus claim AI will replace the entire SOC. And then there’s the other extreme: the purists who insist AI has no place in security at all. I use AI every single day for security work, and the truth sits somewhere boring: it’s a great tool for some things, a dangerous crutch for others, and knowing the difference is the whole game. Here’s the honest take from someone who actually runs it daily. ...

If you’ve spent any time working with AI coding assistants, you’ve probably hit the same wall: they’re great at generating one-off snippets, but trying to use them for a real project that spans days or weeks? It falls apart. Context gets lost. Plans drift. You end up repeating yourself over and over. The dream of “just tell the AI what to build and ship it” dies somewhere between the third context reset and the tenth broken import. ...