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by Filligree 61 days ago
If all you have is a spade, that is _not_ evidence that spades are good for excavating an entire hill.
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A perfect analogy given a spade and a for loop can definitely excavate a hill.
It takes longer, but a spade is better than bare hands. The goal is to speed up finding valid vulnerabilities, and be faster than humans can do it.
> If all you have is a spade, that is _not_ evidence that spades are good for excavating an entire hill.

If you have an automated spade, that's still often better for excavating that hill than you using a shovel by hand.