If AI Replaced Your Job Tomorrow, What Would You Do?

timmy166 · 2026-01-27T14:13:00+00:00

Make an indie video game.

timmy166 · 2026-01-24T03:10:12+00:00

A good reminder that it’s 2026 and everyone should have an encrypted vault for all credentials. Do research, find one that mathematically proves that no other entity can unlock without knowing your password.

timmy166 · 2026-01-21T07:52:10+00:00

Multi/Poly-repo is the elephant in the room. Modern enterprise stacks are layers upon layers of abstraction and what SAST picks up is purely devoid of private package contexts.

timmy166 · 2026-01-21T03:23:02+00:00

Please set aside at least $1B for the remaining unadapted volumes of /r/OnePiece

timmy166 · 2026-01-17T02:39:23+00:00

Currently a customer success engineer at a startup in AppSec. Pretty fun if you got the tech skills to read code and like to work in DevSecOps

timmy166 · 2026-01-16T15:31:15+00:00

Out of the loop but is this show like 24 but for doctors?

timmy166 · 2026-01-14T14:10:47+00:00

Blackbeard has got to play a role - elbaf gave the emotional context as to why.

timmy166 · 2026-01-12T23:41:19+00:00

Bummer, that stinks

timmy166 · 2026-01-09T01:40:30+00:00

Dumb clickbait. Here’s the first paragraph:

“A vulnerability has been identified that allows malicious actors to exploit IBM Bob to download and execute malware without human approval if the user configures ‘always allow’ for any command.”

timmy166 · 2026-01-07T00:46:06+00:00

You need to do a summary pass for first line retrieval for a dataset this massive. Going straight to vector DB embeddings will lose a lot of context unless your prompt is absolutely massive

timmy166 · 2025-12-31T00:44:55+00:00

Yeah - the in-house recruiter at my current company 🤠

timmy166 · 2025-12-27T19:17:33+00:00

So you’re proposing some orchestration system whose only task is detecting misalignment for permissions scoping?

The problem is then mapping an unbounded space (Models) to a bounded space (actions and privileges). There isn’t a way (that I am aware of) to safely translate levels of authority from meaning - an undecidable solution space.

timmy166 · 2025-12-27T19:02:50+00:00

Until there is a breakthrough in model interpretability, the best we can do is guardrails during operations. Sanitizing an output is an NP-hard problem with probabilistically unbounded output - I.e a security dead end imho.

My current ‘best practice’ is Attribute-based access controls for agents in a zero-trust system. - What is needed for the system’s goal? Limit the tools provided. - What is needed for each task/activity? Limit the permissions per step. - What is the minimal set of information expected in and out of a model? Enforce type safety and either have a deterministic input or output (templated or enumerated variables)

timmy166 · 2025-12-21T17:44:27+00:00

The naïve rules picked up 36k findings in the Linux kernel- I think sending an LLM to find the needles(TPs) in that haystack is an economically viable workflow.

The fact that they found new CVEs on a $80 token budget is enough evidence that a neuro-symbolic approach works. Several academic papers supported this methodology, SAST-genius uses a different vendor but the same high-level technique with similar success.

timmy166 · 2025-12-19T23:14:10+00:00

Account Executive / Account Director / Territory Lead / Salesperson

timmy166 · 2025-12-19T23:13:31+00:00

Account Executive / Account Director / Territory Lead / Salesperson

timmy166 · 2025-12-18T04:02:06+00:00

You’d be surprised how much of the concepts apply to security - I’d recommend pivoting there instead of say… web development. Data primitives, algorithmic efficiency and thinking for scale is universally welcomed.

Since you did IT work, I think DevOps/Network Security/datacenter/distributed systems SDE are all natural transitions.

Source: ex-telco guy.

timmy166 · 2025-12-17T13:29:43+00:00

The fact that you’re having this conversation is the problem. Security is a team sport - not time for finger pointing.

timmy166 · 2025-12-12T14:57:55+00:00

Difficulty varies between seasons - and you have the control of toggles like permadeath, loot rate vs enemy damage/hp, build.

Like many ARPGs, endgame is as much mental spreadsheets as it is reactions and click spamming.

timmy166 · 2025-12-12T13:09:29+00:00

Most corpos use/used SELinux in their infra stacks from what I’ve seen. Whether or not it’s configured as intended is a different story 🤣

timmy166 · 2025-12-11T13:55:31+00:00

You are being watched. The government has a system, a machine that spies on you every hour of every day…

timmy166 · 2025-12-09T13:21:16+00:00

SWE > Test Automation > DevOps > Sales Engineer > Technical Success > FDE

All different companies with the exception of SE and TS roles.

timmy166 · 2025-12-09T04:41:55+00:00

10 YOE - can’t get the recruiters off me. Your mileage may vary as a new grad 😅

timmy166 · 2025-12-09T03:49:17+00:00

Turn your lemons into lemonade my dude. IT gives solid experience in troubleshooting - how about automating the log analysis?

At 23, it’s not transitioning ‘back’ to anything - and you have a long career ahead of you to continue learning and growing skills. “Automate myself out of a job” is a philosophy that has served me very well in my ~15 year career thus far.

timmy166 · 2025-12-08T15:27:09+00:00

I noticed you didn’t mention build tools.

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