Build the tooling. Don't be the tooling.

A fun way to think about AI right now: most people are using it as if they were handed an axe for the first time and promptly used it as firewood.

The real move isn't using AI to do the thing — it's using AI to build tools that do the thing deterministically. Let AI help you architect the process. Then you have something reliable, repeatable, and independent of whatever the frontier model decides to do today.

This is especially relevant in vulnerability research. Right now a lot of hackers are just stepping up to a prompt and seeing what happens. That's fine for exploration, but it doesn't scale. You're always subject to the whims of the model.

The better play: use AI to help you build scanners, fuzzers, and analysis pipelines that produce consistent results every time. Deterministic output you can trust — not a dice roll on every run.

Build the tooling. Don't be the tooling.