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Wil Gibbs
Personal blog · wilgibbs.com/blogsecurityai
Wil Gibbs's personal blog at wilgibbs.com covers security and ai. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “LLMs Solving a DEF Con CTF Finals Challenge”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog's DEF CON finals MCP post when discussing whether LLM agents can do real-world pen testing, citing it as evidence that LLMs solve only part of the problem.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Wil Gibbs, an Arizona State University Ph.D. Student working on Binary Analysis at SEFCOM.
Most-linked posts?
- LLMs Solving a DEF Con CTF Finals Challenge3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-09-11
What Hacker News says?
In fact: https://wilgibbs.com/blog/defcon-finals-mcp/ Which makes me think: yes, llms can solve some of this, but still only some. It's more than a research tool, when you combine tools and agentic workflows. I don't see a reason it should slow down.
Comment linking /blog/defcon-finals-mcp/
on “Comparing AI agents to cybersecurity professionals in real-world pen testing”Submitted LLMs Solving a DEF Con CTF Finals Challenge as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted All You Need Is MCP – LLMs Solving a DEF Con CTF Finals Challenge as a story · 1 points
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