AI Is Solving CTF Challenges in Minutes

This is slightly old news at this point - the BSides conference was in March, this article was published in May, we've had a whole lot of additional evidence since May that makes it unsurprising that AI can solve CTF challenges!

Here's the repo mentioned in the story: https://github.com/verialabs/ctf-agent

> Autonomous CTF solver that races multiple AI models in parallel. 1st place BSidesSF 2026.

That one hasn't had any commits since March 28th. Looks like it was running Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.4.

I expect Opus 5 and GPT-5.6-Sol would be even more effective.

(Fable 5 would refuse the challenge, Mythos 5 would undoubtedly nail it.)

Reads like AI writing again. Can you just post the prompt?

How are people getting models to CTF when I can't even simulate a reverse engineering attempt on an open source project?

I'm glad I can't, but I'd like to be informed. Is it prompt engineering or just some model/harness combination?

> The implications are clear: focus on the human-skills part of the job.

The implications are not clear. They are not clear for the security people, for the SWE people, for anybody in knowledge work whose jobs are impacted.

I wish people would stop with the “the solution is merely simply retool against the part the AI isn’t good at yet” cope and feel the enormity of the moment with humility.

When the dust settles these jobs may not exist, or the jobs that do exist will be unrecognizable from the ones today and perhaps so qualitatively different as to no longer be attractive.

Not this one:

https://drorspei.com/whatsmynumber