Professional bug creator and side-project abandoner| VR w/ @autonomouscyber | @exploitsclub | VR / RE
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Jack M 🏴☠️ retweeted
sometimes people really are afraid of learning something. it's gonna be fine if you learn something and don't use it. you're currently scrolling this site. you take some time off. your life isn't so optimized you can't spare trying hard at a few things. it'll be ok
Jack M 🏴☠️ retweeted
The only reason I love @goodreads and have spent 17 years on it is because it's protected from product guys with an addiction to changing up things and actually has major league readers.
The last bastion of community, consistency and safety among social networks.
"In the past, engineering has been dominated by 'what can we do,' but now 'what do we want to do' looms greater since we now have the power to design almost anything we want"
- Richard Hamming, 1997
Jack M 🏴☠️ retweeted
What these kinds of takes underestimate is that before AI, a lot of people got into software engineering because they liked the cognitive challenge of coding.
Back in our day, many of us who became SWEs started coding at a very young age, in our teens. We weren't even thinking about making a huge salary. We just wanted to do something challenging. Coding was nothing to brag about. They called us nerds and weirdos.
With AI, everyone can churn out code. The nerds will either go deeper down the stack (e.g., into hardware) or find some other field where they can manifest their weirdness.
Right around the time @exploitsclub stopped posting
Jack M 🏴☠️ retweeted
this post on the chinese internet by a deepseek kernel engineer explains software crafter's daily dread so perfectly
Jack M 🏴☠️ retweeted
as sad as this make me, it's true. programming changed and it's not coming back.
the need for deep technical skill and understanding how computers work is very much still in place, but the need for the skill of writing code is no more.
Jack M 🏴☠️ retweeted
Every time a new AI agent comes out, or some new capability gets announced, part of me is amazed by it and another part of me feels this weird sense of loss/grief. Like with every upgrade the version of life we grew up expecting gets a little further away.
Work, creativity, the internet, how we learn, how we talk to each other, what it even means to be good at something… all of it feels like it’s starting to move out from underneath us.
I’m excited about the future and I think what’s coming is incredible. But there’s still something in my soul that feels like life as we knew it, or maybe life as we thought it was going to be, is slipping away and we’ll never get it back and never be able to dream up what’s going to be in its place.
Jack M 🏴☠️ retweeted
Hey everyone, SCION is out today!!
audible.com/pd/Scion-Audiobo…
amazon.com/Scion-James-Islin…
barnesandnoble.com/w/scion-j…
Jack M 🏴☠️ retweeted
This is so strange to me. why invest in a fancy security chip (with a million dollar bounty), advanced boot loader security, forcing kernel mitigations be enabled across vendors, just to ditch MTE? Pixel used to the gold standard device for Android security..
Jack M 🏴☠️ retweeted
if you like jack, you might like youtube.com/channel/UC-2JUs_…
Probably one of my favorite talks I've watched in a long time youtu.be/17_HcR95YBc
I'm hiring senior VR/RE roles for my team @AutonomousCyber! Small, elite team that will be growing over the next year. You'll have an opportunity to steer business direction / strategy if that is your thing, or just hack on cool shit with other cracked researchers.
We are hiring researchers at @AutonomousCyber to work on some of the hardest problems for the coolest customers...and we will be in Vegas this weekend!
If you want to work at the forefront of AIxVR and you'll be around at @defcon, drop me a note