alt Hacker NewsI work in this space. The productivity gains from LLMs are real, but not in the "replace humans" direction.
Where they shine is the interpretive grunt work: "help me figure out where the auth logic is in this obfuscated blob", "make sense of this minified JS", "what's this weird binary protocol doing.", "write me a Frida script to hook these methods and dump these keys" Things that used to mean staring at code for hours or writing throwaway tooling now takes a fraction of the time. They're straight up a playing field leveler.
Folks with the hacker's mindset but without the programming chops can punch above their weight and find more within the limited time of an engagement.
Sure they make mistakes, and will need babysitting a lot. But it's getting better. I expect more firms to adopt them as part of their routine.
> The productivity gains from LLMs are real, but not in the "replace humans" direction.
It might be the beer talking, but everytime someone comments on AI they have to say something along the lines of "LLM do help". If i'm being really honest, the fact everyone has to mention this in every comment and every blog post and every presentation is because deep down everyone isn't buying it.