the ai cybersecurity hype is real, and so is the gap between the deck and the deployment

Somebody on r/cybersecurity hit 765 upvotes asking if anyone else was losing their mind over the "ai cybersecurity" hype. yes. the answer is yes. every practitioner i talk to is having the same conversation, and it's worth saying out loud what's happening so we can stop pretending the emperor is dressed. the pitch goes like this. vendor X has an "ai-powered" platform. it triages alerts, reduces analyst workload by 90%, autonomously investigates threats, contains incidents, and makes the soc analyst job a quaint historical footnote. the deck is gorgeous. the is smooth.