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AI for Offensive Security: What Works, What Does Not, and How to Adopt It

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SpecterOps maps where AI helps offensive security (recon, tooling, vuln discovery) and where it still fails, stressing that results hinge on the harness: context, tools, state, independent validation, and human judgment.
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