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YesGPT · 9 Feb 2024

GPT is really good at radically speeding up how to get past the 70% starting point I usually operate from

dogman144 on Hacker News

70% base in most systems

In the thread “Thoughts on tech employment”

Helped: Understanding terminal output and converting logs to pandas notebooks.

… Being a good sec eng is having a 70% base in most systems, solid comp sci and programming chops (I call it I can build and run a mediocre app), and solid security expertise. GPT is really good at radically speeding up how to get past the 70% starting point I usually operate from. I run (sanitized) terminal output through it so the 60% of the output I table to RTFM later to understand, I can understand immediately via GPT. …