It's way too early to make firm predictions here, but if you're not already in the field it's helpful to know there's been 20 years of effort at automating "pen-testing", and the specific subset of testing this project focused on (network pentesting --- as opposed to app pentesting, which targets specifically identified network applications) is already essentially fully automated.
I would expect over the medium term agent platforms to trounce un-augmented human testing teams in basically all the "routinized" pentesting tasks --- network, web, mobile, source code reviews. There are too many aspects of the work that are just perfect fits for agent loops.
I would expect over the medium term agent platforms to trounce un-augmented human testing teams in basically all the "routinized" pentesting tasks --- network, web, mobile, source code reviews. There are too many aspects of the work that are just perfect fits for agent loops.