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Hack the Planet: 90s Hacker Culture vs. Today's AI Devs


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Today’s AI dev isn’t dropping shellcode into memory via a buffer overflow—they’re fine-tuning GPT on sentiment-labeled customer complaints for a mid-tier CRM startup. Hacking, in the traditional sense, has been replaced by orchestrating complex pipelines of machine learning toolkits with YAML files and compute budgets. What the 90s hackers did with port scanners and punchy manifestos, today’s AI rebels do with open weights, privacy-preserving algorithms, and Git repos that mysteriously disappear from major platforms.

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