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soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:
"But Soatok, a machine will be able to do your job tomorrow. Aren't you scared? Aren't you excited?"
No. And no.
So what? Lots of people can do my job (especially if you only have a shallow understanding of what "my job" is). Does that automatically make me unemployed?
My job isn't merely "the guy who knows how to find bugs in code", or "someone who knows how to do the cryptopals challenges" or even "guy that can hack into computers".
My job is "helps people fix security problems especially with cryptography." That requires understanding the client and the client's custoners. It means figuring out (to some extent) their fears, biases, blind spots, bad habits, assumptions, and enemies. And then moving the needle somehow.
A list of machine-detected vulnerabilities doesn't actually do that work. It's just an input; inert and ultimately useless without expert care.