Hot take: AI didn't kill bug bounty hunting. It just exposed who was actually good at it. ------ Here's what…
Om S. — CyberSecurity Research Engineer
Hot take:
AI didn't kill bug bounty hunting.
It just exposed
who was actually good at it.
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Here's what nobody says out loud —
The lazy ones used AI.
Copy pasted the output.
Hit submit.
No verification.
No proof of concept.
Just confidence.
70% of those reports?
Invalid.
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And the good ones?
They gave AI the boring stuff.
Recon.
Mapping.
Saved hours.
Then went deeper.
Into the places
no prompt can reach.
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Because the real bugs
don't look like bugs.
They feel like something's off.
That quiet instinct.
That "this shouldn't work but let me try anyway."
You can't automate that.
You can't even explain that.
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AI is a fast intern.
Hardworking.
Confident.
Zero curiosity.
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And in security?
Curiosity
is
everything.
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The biggest companies in the world?
Biggest AI budgets on the planet?
Still running bug bounty programs.
Still paying human brains.
Still can't buy the mindset.
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Your tools are replaceable.
The way you think
isn't.
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Tell me something —
What's one thing you caught manually
that every scanner and AI tool
completely missed?
Drop it below.
Real ones only.
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