Are security researchers doomed?

A post on x by [[Roni Carta]]

Roni Carta (Lupin), founder of Depi, answering a colleague’s question at DEF CON on whether AI has doomed security researchers, by going back over 500 years of the same fear.
The printing press and Johannes Trithemius’s In Praise of Scribes, which he went on to have printed.
The Luddites as skilled workers who were right about what was happening to them, and Baudelaire’s attack on photography.
Electricity sceptics like Henry Morton and William Preece, and chess after Deep Blue, with Kasparov’s advanced chess and centaur teams.
Security’s own history, from exploit mitigations raising the bar to the DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge, and bug bounty growing after recon got automated.
His conclusion: automation eats the bottom of the stack, and the field survives and grows, but only for those who move to where the new value is.