Post by @jianmin@defcon.social

2026-03-15 16:41 UTC

Last year I looked at buying a maxed out framework build and it was around $2k for what I wanted. Now I&#39;m looking at the same build and it&#39;s $3k. And yet, after pivoting to the cloud in the late 2010s, I feel like it is a strategic investment to buy local compute while I still can. AI is killing the market already, but if TSMC fabs go offline, the crunch is going to get way worse.

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@jianmin@defcon.social 2026-03-15 16:51

I have been bearish on LLMs for several years, all the way back to getting Bing to leak its system prompt as my procrastination pastime. But in the last two weeks I've witnessed multiple reasonable, smart people in the computer security space take hard pivot to LLMs. I tried evaluating Gemini, Claude, and GPT for CTFs. GPT 5.4 writes code quite well. Opus 4.6 can write good code and hack computers incredibly well. People have been predicting the deprecation of jobs for several years now, but this is the first time I believe it. Right now, expert users in the computer security space are finding great use from LLMs and agents. But maybe in a year or two, expert users will be taking direction from the LLMs. The speed of improvement year over year is startling.

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