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Since we're judging each other, I'm genuinely wondering how bad you are at making friends. I mean, non-LLM friends. Relatives don't count.
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I often wonder why on this forum of alleged hacker types, there seems to be such an impetus to push what all VC's are desperately bought into at the moment, whether it be crypto, or AI nonsense. Oh wait... Right. Asking for resources or asking "does anyone know where I can start?" Followed by a description of "here's where I'm at" has been table stakes for the uninitiated since time immemorial. When I see "ask the LL…
Even pre llm, there was a clear indicator of someone who was skilled at coding versus someone who was not. The big thing that differentiated people was curiosity. When someone is curious, they would go look stuff up, experiment, figure out how to build things by failing over and over again, and eventually they would figure it out, but consequently, they have learned quite a lot more along the way.
And then there were people that were just following instructions, who in interviews though that them following instructions was virtue worthy.
Nowdays, this is even easier to tell who is who, because LLMs essentially shortcut that curiosity for you. You don't have to dig through the internet and play around with sandbox code, you can just ask an LLM and it will give you answers.
This is why I specifically said if you are hesitant of starting with LLMs, you should learn how to learn first, which usually starts with learning how to ask questions.
Taking the opportunity to ask: are there nice recommended resources for a beginner to start with reverse engineering (ideally using Ghidra)? Let's say for an experienced developer, but not so experienced in reverse engineering? I guess one issue I have is that I don't have good ideas of fun projects, and that's probably something I need to actually get the motivation to learn. I can find a "hello world", that's easy,…
Strange to see the NSA using Java, maybe this is really old?
Edit: Wikipedia has a table with 1.0 being 2003 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghidra
How do they incentivize government employees into doing such excellent work without paying them a real tech salary?
I was a special agent with an org involved in similar work. They put me through 7 SANS courses, including paying for 5 certs, in 18 months.
Strange to see the NSA using Java, maybe this is really old?
How do they incentivize government employees into doing such excellent work without paying them a real tech salary?
How do they incentivize government employees into doing such excellent work without paying them a real tech salary?