simple script kiddie attacks that stopped working in the mid 2000's will suddenly work again for awhile until the Gen AI's "learn" how to write secure code. And by "learn" I mean that should probably stop scraping Stackoverflow comments and using it as a source of truth on how something should be done.
script kiddies don't use buffer overflows, script kiddies try the top 20 most popular passwords and deface your wordpress. AI might learn to code in rust or whatever, but you'll forever have the human factor inherent in systems administration that makes skidding a valid tactic.
Jesus H. Christ, people are taking the wrong idea from those types of stories! Those are cautionary tales of giving corporations too much power, and letting them take over the government. These stories are meant to show that when a sociopathic entity (a corp), which has one goal of profit above all else, is given power then it will use it without considering the human effects. This type of story isn't even prescient, most of them were written in a way that simply shines a light onto things that today's corps are already doing!
These writers weren't trying to excite you, they were trying to warn you. I'm having existential dread that people want to see cyberpunk-like things come to reality.
With vibe coding and all of these things becoming more popular it's a dream career for the next 10 to 20 years for a cyber security dev.