Michael Pierre

Bug Bounty Hunter

[Michael Pierre @MichaelPierre]

CIS Benchmarks & STIGs: Best practices, guides, instructions, checklists & configuration settings for securing systems - operating systems, network devices, databases, web servers, virtualization platforms and more. #cybersecurity ⤵️👇

[Michael Pierre @MichaelPierre]

@IanCarrollShow Regarding the question of whether Charlie Kirk was wearing a bullet proof vest, have a look at "Dangerous Liberty Ep141 - Charlie Kirk Assassination" https://t.co/0FWiWdWGeH

[Andrew Ng @AndrewYNg]

Some people today are discouraging others from learning programming on the grounds AI will automate it. This advice will be seen as some of the worst career advice ever given. I disagree with the Turing Award and Nobel prize winner who wrote, “It is far more likely that the programming occupation will become extinct [...] than that it will become all-powerful. More and more, computers will program themselves.”​ Statements discouraging people from learning to code are harmful!

In the 1960s, when programming moved from punchcards (where a programmer had to laboriously make holes in physical cards to write code character by character) to keyboards with terminals, programming became easier. And that made it a better time than before to begin programming. Yet it was in this era that Nobel laureate Herb Simon wrote the words quoted in the first paragraph. Today’s arguments not to learn to code continue to echo his comment.

As coding becomes easier, more people should code, not fewer!

Over the past few decades, as programming has moved from assembly language to higher-level languages like C, from desktop to cloud, from raw text editors to IDEs to AI assisted coding where sometimes one barely even looks at the generated code (which some coders recently started to call vibe coding), it is getting easier with each step.

I wrote previously that I see tech-savvy people coordinating AI tools to move toward being 10x professionals — individuals who have 10 times the impact of the average person in their field. I am increasingly convinced that the best way for many people to accomplish this is not to be just consumers of AI applications, but to learn enough coding to use AI-assisted coding tools effectively.

One question I’m asked most often is what someone should do who is worried about job displacement by AI. My answer is: Learn about AI and take control of it, because one of the most important skills in the future will be the ability to tell a computer exactly what you want, so it can do that for you. Coding (or getting AI to code for you) is a great way to do that.

When I was working on the course Generative AI for Everyone and needed to generate AI artwork for the background images, I worked with a collaborator who had studied art history and knew the language of art. He prompted Midjourney with terminology based on the historical style, palette, artist inspiration and so on — using the language of art — to get the result he wanted. I didn’t know this language, and my paltry attempts at prompting could not deliver as effective a result.

Similarly, scientists, analysts, marketers, recruiters, and people of a wide range of professions who understand the language of software through their knowledge of coding can tell an LLM or an AI-enabled IDE what they want much more precisely, and get much better results. As these tools are continuing to make coding easier, this is the best time yet to learn to code, to learn the language of software, and learn to make computers do exactly what you want them to do.

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[Danny Burlage @DannyBurlage]

These two teenagers became Pentagon proteges.

By 17, they were so good at hacking, their ISPs sent warning letters.

Today, they've paid out $230M to ethical hackers worldwide.

Here's how two Dutch kids revolutionized cybersecurity forever:

[Michael Pierre @MichaelPierre]

@MatthewBerman DeepSeek AI exposed a database containing secret keys, chat logs, and backend data, allowing full system access. @TheHackersNews

[Michael Pierre @MichaelPierre]

@ruima lolol

[Michael Pierre @MichaelPierre]

@MatthewBerman Have you heard anything about a potential cyberattack or major disruption affecting NVDA and the AI sector in the US? I'm hearing chatter about it but no news from the usual public sources.

[Michael Pierre @MichaelPierre]

@iwVq7 @hackthebox_eu Tough but great exam. Respect to you.

[No Starch Press @nostarch]

Reverse engineering, fuzzing, exploiting - it's all in here. Time to find those elusive zero-days.

[Michael Pierre @MichaelPierre]

@iwVq7 @hackthebox_eu congrats

[Michael Pierre @MichaelPierre]

How To Find Your 1st Bug Bounty by @CyberFlow10 | https://t.co/Sctfe8oeF4 #bugbounty #cybersecurity #hacking #infosec #ethicalhacking

[Michael Pierre @MichaelPierre]

The Hacker Recipes by @_nwodtuhs | https://t.co/5ZGlIsZJtm #infosec #cybersecurity

[Dark Web Informer @DarkWebInformer]

"Inside Russia’s Hacker Underworld"

[Michael Pierre @MichaelPierre]

AppSecExplained: An up-to-date handbook for Web Application Hacking by @appSecExp | https://t.co/t8M7TdnIWW | #cybersecurity #infosec

[Michael Pierre @MichaelPierre]

HACKS, LEAKS, AND REVELATIONS by @micahflee | https://t.co/4kCFcZP0vw #CyberSec

[Michael Pierre @MichaelPierre]

Pentest Tales: You Spent How Much on Security? By @TCMSecurity | https://t.co/X6ucu9WV4x #CyberSecurity

[Coffin @lostsec_]

amazing xss tool ❤️

[Michael Pierre @MichaelPierre]

A strategy to land your first pentest job by @PentesterLab | https://t.co/Gm8kGcLKbS #CyberSecurity

[greg @greg16676935420]

Live look at Trump showing up to his speech tonight

[Michael Pierre @MichaelPierre]

@SecurityTrybe