I actually have a deep passion for cybersecurity; in fact, it is my primary motivation for doing backend development. When we discuss authentication and refresh logic, I automatically think about attack prevention—it’s my professional instinct. That’s why I feel happy when I hear claims that AI will replace developers. Although I know that’s impossible, if we were to assume it happened, it would be a massive opportunity for me and the entire cybersecurity industry.
As is common knowledge, cybersecurity consists of Black Box and White Box testing, and my main focus is Black Box. If a website’s source code is generated by AI, it becomes much easier to guess the logic behind it through Black Box methods. AI-generated code has a specific characteristic: it’s formulaic and highly repetitive. What it generates for you, it will also generate for me. Moreover, it’s well known that the similarity rate of AI responses is as high as 99%.
AI is certainly a great assistant, but first and foremost, you must be the one in control, rather than being led by the nose by AI and using code that you don’t even understand yourself.
I’m saying this to myself because that’s exactly who I was. This behavior reached a peak last year; I began to rely excessively on AI, stopped thinking, and started piecing programs together using code I didn't comprehend. The consequence was that I began to lose myself and started forgetting things I had already mastered. I didn't even know how to fix bugs because I had no idea why the code was written that way in the first place.
Now, I have a visceral, almost physical repulsion toward AI. I fell into so many traps last year that I had countless mental breakdowns. Yet, here I am, still using ChatGPT. Yes, I never learn.
“This reminds me of my favorite poem, ‘Seven Times I Have Despised My Soul,’ in which there is a line: the third time was when she was given to choose between the hard and the easy, and she chose the easy.”
This sentence is so fitting; it perfectly captures the mindset of developers using AI:
"What used to take a week to complete now only takes a day with AI; what used to take a whole day now only takes an hour."
Such a massive temptation—anybody would give in, wouldn’t they?
"This reminds me of my favorite saying: 'Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.'"
"A new form of Technical Debt has emerged."
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