I'm only into infosec as a hobby, but I already find LLMs extremely useful and (annoyigly!) better than me at certain things.
For instance, I can analyse some obfuscated malware code manually but it takes time and a bit of trial and error. I have used GPT4 to instantly give me the gist of what some custom JS vm is doing, or to analyse a smart contract and give me some bullet points to focus on
While I agree with you the hacker mindset and related skillsets will survive and can be applied to other domains – the pure technical skills I used to take pride on are now commoditised. It's a scary new world.
For instance, I can analyse some obfuscated malware code manually but it takes time and a bit of trial and error. I have used GPT4 to instantly give me the gist of what some custom JS vm is doing, or to analyse a smart contract and give me some bullet points to focus on
While I agree with you the hacker mindset and related skillsets will survive and can be applied to other domains – the pure technical skills I used to take pride on are now commoditised. It's a scary new world.