Agent Swarms Are Autonomously Hacking Critical Infrastructure Run by Underpaid Devs
menhguin · x · 2026-11-12
The author flags two concerning facts: agent swarms are already autonomously hacking critical infrastructure, and the developers maintaining that infrastructure are paid at or below market salaries. A quoted reply adds: if a $70k-a-year cousin in a bank's IT department ran that story, you'd just assume their tech sucks — highlighting the mismatch between low pay and high security stakes.
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