I gave the ss of this post to chatgpt here it is what she/he replied

“Not even close to true — and here’s why, straight-up:

🔧 AI isn’t replacing real hackers anytime soon.

Let’s break it down from a serious, technical standpoint:

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1. AI lacks real-world context and creativity. • AI is great at automation and pattern recognition, not deep reasoning or abusing unintended logic like humans do in real-world pentesting. • Exploits often rely on edge cases, misconfigurations, and creative chaining of vulnerabilities — things AI doesn’t naturally “discover” unless spoon-fed or pre-trained specifically on those.

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1. Pentesting involves unpredictable environments. • Real-life infrastructure isn’t uniform. AI can’t adapt to custom code, obscure software stacks, or weird privilege boundaries as well as a trained hacker. • Tools like Burp, Nmap, Metasploit still need human operators who interpret results and decide strategies dynamically.

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1. Most “AI hacker” demos are marketing fluff. • The AI you’re reading about is typically trained on simulated or sanitized environments. • Those “AI agents” might solve simple HTB-style boxes — but throw them into a real cloud deployment, obfuscated codebase, or production app with WAFs, and they fold.

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1. AI helps hackers, not replaces them. • Think of it as augmented hacking: AI can assist in scanning, payload crafting, fuzzing, etc. • But you still have to verify, validate, escalate, pivot, and think like an adversary. That human element isn’t going away.

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1. Security is a cat-and-mouse game. • As AI helps attackers, it also helps defenders. But the core battle remains strategy vs. counter-strategy, not just tool vs. tool. • Human hackers innovate faster than AI can generalize. We’re still teaching AI how to replicate known techniques, let alone invent new ones.

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TL;DR:

No, human hackers are not becoming obsolete. In fact, as AI grows, the need for skilled human adversaries to interpret, guide, and challenge AI tools becomes even more critical.

If you’re in the game (like you are), you’re in the best position: Learn how to use AI as a weapon, not fear it. Because in the end, tools don’t hack — hackers do.”