Will AI kill cybersecurity? HTB hiring tips, writeups vs. struggle & more | Cube Talks 0x12
Source: YouTube · Hack The Box · published Sep 22, 2026 · 55:30
This week's Cube Talk: HTB staff and community panelists answer audience questions on AI's impact on cybersecurity, hiring, learning, and careers 0:05.
Key Takeaways:
• AI won't kill cybersecurity—it's a hyped tool, and more AI-generated code means more to pentest; security remains risk management and accountability 3:34.
• Stand out to hiring managers via blogs, GitHub, or HTB activity; passion and genuine conversation matter—reading AI answers on camera gets candidates rejected 6:43.
• AI is allowed in exams if your report fully explains methodology; fully automating an exam is cheating 21:57.
• Writeups and AI are fine, but beginners should build foundations first to understand why techniques work 24:37.
• In-person networking and referrals are the top way in; make valuable open-source contributions and check job listings for wanted certs 33:48.
• Great professionals put ego aside and stay relentlessly curious 44:38.
Favorites: Smart Hire, Delivery, Breadcrumbs 52:23.
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[music] Welcome everyone to our weekly cube talks. This is your chance to ask our wonderful panelists here, including these HTB staff um and some of our community contributors any questions that you may have in regards to Hack the Box. Anything that we're doing, cyber security, tech, bread, whatever you got, throw it at us. We'll uh try our best to answer it. You can ask questions by throwing them in the chat with the slashcubet talks commands and you can also upvote other people's questions which will bump it up in the list to be asked to the panelists. So if you something's already asked, upvote it rather than asking it again. So we will ask it sooner. Um and I guess let's go through and allow everyone to introduce themselves. Uh starting with Idna. Oh, I'm in there and I look after the …