never thought being a script kiddie would make me smart, but here we are in 2026.

i had one place, they were using all these shady pay with a credit card for "points" to do these web gui things that were... basically nmap, dig, etc?

so i wrote up a small shell script that took in the servers our (often nonprofit) clients wanted scanned...

and so we could lower our costs and free up analyst time -- but sadly they often found out they had out of date windows boxen they couldn't afford to fix, and we'd have to settle for getting them onto MFA, using password managers and basics like that.

people overvalue AI imho. people are getting weak, they don't teach themselves the concepts that would allow them to make best use of AI.

anyways, i think the type of person freaking out is the same who's been cutting and pasting from stack overflow rather than learning enough to grab a book or read up on a library to get the needful done.

but hey, what do i know? i'm just some freak on hacker news

(proudly writing w/o AI :-))