[outloudvi]

I agree that LLM does not (and believe it never) fully replace researchers, but it produces artifacts (e.g. writeups, PoCs) at a cheaper price.

That makes me think LLM impacts human researchers' rewards, but now I realized the result might actually go in the opposite direction according to Jevons paradox. People still need experienced and professional human security researchers after all.

[sublinear]

Artifacts have always been delegated away by the expert when possible because expertise is more about "planning" and less about "doing".

I'm glad you brought up Jevons Paradox, because it's for this reason I believe it's an extremely poor description of what's happening with AI.

The broader topic people should be discussing is not Jevons Paradox, but marginal utility.

More artifacts have diminishing utility.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal_utility