It kind of already feels that way. I realized while I was researching new tech tools, small (insert your profession) team, are so outnumbered in comparison. I was looking for observability tools for my network and realized there are companies that sell like "healing" and feedback-action systems to other cloud providers, for lack of better words.
Like they install log monitoring, that gets filtered and LLMs can act on threats. Just give them a linux systemd log an SSH key and they can augment servers to combat threats, reboot, deploy, configure, etc. Very soon grunt work on medium to large networks will be mostly done by AI.
I recently started using copilot to help me write ansible playbooks to get my network into shape faster. If I trusted copilot and claude, at this point in time, I could, with about an %80 success rate, say "I want to get X (popular software tool) deployed and configured and here is my list of servers" and it would build playbooks and give me the command to deploy a very minimal working solution. I was able to use a mix of my local models to do something similar with decent results such that I didn't need to disclose information to big tech.
Sorry but there is no reason the people I know in big/government tech should be getting paid six figures to RD into a Windows desktop and hit the install updates button for 40hrs/wk at this point.
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