How AI changes the scale and speed of attacks

We are going to see exploits, breaches and so called "hacks" almost every day.

I genuinely wish more people who are active in Web3 would read this.

I said this months ago;

AI will multiply the scale, speed and precision of attacks, but the ugly truth is that many of these incidents are not some mysterious act of cyber warfare.

They are homemade.

Homemade disasters caused by bad security, lazy operations, rotten incentives, insider access, ignored warnings, fake audits, rushed deployments and teams that treat user funds like casino chips until the transaction history finally exposes them.

And then there is the biggest category of all: projects that were designed from day 1 not to build anything useful, but to extract as much value as possible from users before the illusion collapses.

They do not fail because they misunderstand security.

They fail because the extraction was the business model from the beginning.

AND;

People need to understand that probably 90% of the founders in this space have no real understanding of security, risk, infrastructure or the technology they are selling.

And it is not only because the technology itself is still new.

It is because many of them have never studied management, risk, governance, software architecture, operational security, compliance, incident response or even basic organisational responsibility.

They know how to launch a token, build hype, run a Discord, hire shillers and talk about community.

That is not the same as being capable of protecting user funds, managing technical debt, building resilient systems or understanding what can go wrong before it destroys people.

Crypto keeps pretending that every founder is a visionary builder, when many are just underqualified operators sitting on top of financial infrastructure they barely understand.

Maybe I should start again posting wallet addresses and post mortem analyses again like it was cool back then in 2023.

Because visible wreckage is simply a better engagement farm.

And at some point, it barely makes sense anymore to treat every new exploit as some shocking lesson for the industry.

This has become daily routine in crypto.

The post mortems keep changing names, dates and wallet addresses, but the structure is almost always the same.

There is rarely some profound new insight left to extract from another corpse on chain.

What I find genuinely pathetic is how many people only start liking, sharing and interacting once the damage is already done.

Warnings are boring. Prevention is boring. Risk education is boring. Receipts after the body is on the floor suddenly get engagement.

The real work is no longer pretending that every post mortem is a revelation.

The real work is education, caution, prevention and forcing people to understand the risks before they become another wallet address in someone else’s thread.

A market that refuses to learn before impact has no right to act surprised after impact.