[est]

There are basically two kinds of people in the world, ones that create stuff, and ones that destroys stuff.

Defense is a toally different game, and requires a complete new mindset than creativity. Security is something that you miss one then you lose all.

AIs are good at choosing a good candidate based on a reward model, but it sucks hard at enumerating mundane attack surfaces and make combinations to exploit through.

[beardedwizard]

Good engineering is good engineering. Belief that someone else uniquely possesses the skill to engineer some critical part of a system you built is, for me, just abdicating responsibility. It's a learned helplessness.

Someone else blindly operating an llm on a corpus you created with an llm is comical.

[drfloyd51]

Are you the best choice to engineer everything your system does? There is no one in your company that might do a better job than you for a specific part of the system?

There is nothing wrong with asking for help or bouncing ideas of people with stronger skills.

I still have the responsibility to code XYZ well. But I don’t have to do it in a clean room.