Been using DeepSeek lately. Spent around 7 billion tokens and it made me around $3,000 so far. But how? 1. I stopped just pointing my agent at random targets and telling it to hack everything blindly. 2. First I map the target myself. Normal recon basically. I want to understand the assets, what the app does, what tech it's using, how the different functions work, etc. 3. Then I give the AI a specific thing to look at. I still do most of the hacking manually. If I find something interesting, I'll tell it something like “go check this, I think XYZ might be doing XYZ here” and let it dig deeper. I also use my own skills for specific stuff: /rce → check this file upload /xss → check this JS file /oauth → check this login flow and so on. 4. My hackbots aren't fully AI either. For some stuff I just write scripts. I want the same input to give me the same results every time. AI can overthink things, skip steps or just do something completely different on the next run. So I use scripts for collecting the data, then AI to analyze the recon data and help with automation. 5. Always validate the findings. AI gives you a lot of false positives. And sometimes it finds something that's technically a bug but the program won't accept it as a valid bounty. So I still manually reproduce and validate everything before reporting. I think that's the biggest difference for me. I'm not letting AI “hack for me”. I'm using it where it actually makes me faster. 👇👇👇 #bugbounty #bugbountytips