Let's talk about the thing we're not saying out loud. The cybersecurity community has spent years being the…
Laurent H. — CEO & Founder CYBERR & HEELR
Let's talk about the thing we're not saying out loud.
The cybersecurity community has spent years being the smartest people in the room. We built careers on expertise that took years to develop, reverse engineering, threat hunting, exploit development, deep forensics. Skills that felt untouchable.
Then AI walked in.
And nobody quite knows how to feel about it.
Some of us are excited. Some are skeptical. Some are quietly recalculating. And a few, if they're being honest are a little afraid. Not of losing the job. Of losing the identity.
Because here's the real question underneath all the AI discourse:
If a tool can do in seconds what took you years to learn, what does that make you?
We're not asking about job security. We're not asking about threat models or attack surfaces. We're asking something more personal than that.
Does AI make you feel more powerful or more replaceable?
Has it changed how you value your own expertise?
Is the cyber community genuinely embracing it or performing confidence while quietly panicking?
And honestly, are we building the tools that will eventually make us redundant?
Drop your honest take below. 👇
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Trevor R.: As someone who comes from a coding background and is building automated triage, I am excited for AI as I build agentic triage layers. It is getting better at automating toil and is living up to its design of freeing me up to do more meaningful work.
Debra A.: I think a lot of people are struggling with this more than they admit. Not because AI is replacing deep technical skill overnight, but because it changes what expertise looks like. For years, value in cybersecurity came from being the person who knew the obscure thing, could manually trace the problem, or could outwork complexity through experience. AI compresses some of that advantage. That’s unc