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Why does that matter? Being oblivious to obfuscated binaries is like failing the captcha test.

Let's say instead of reversing, the job was to pick apples. Let's say an AI can pick all the apples in an orchard in normal weather conditions, but add overcast skies and success drops to zero. Is this, in your opinion, still a skilled apple picking specialist?

What if it’s 10x as fast during clear conditions? Then it doesn’t matter.

No hate. My only point is that’s it’s easy for analogies to fail. I can’t tell the point of either of your analogies, where the OP made several clear and cogent points.

I'm not a deep security expert but I'm assuming the skill of the agents will continue to get better, so not saying there AI's can do to this task as reliably as humans. There's likely utility for non-adversarial triage/internal audit with human review. However with better ai apple pickers during sunny conditions you need less human pickers during night conditions. I think measuring the progress of the said apple picking is what's interesting.

Maybe not, but also maybe you would no longer need skilled apple picking specialists.

You're replying to an LLM

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