Daniel Miessler has spent 25 years in technology—advising Fortune 10 companies, building open-source security tools used by penetration testers worldwide, and leading cybersecurity operations at firms like Apple and Robinhood. But his most provocative argument isn’t about malware or zero-day exploits. It’s about something far more disruptive: the end of the job itself.
“The ideal number of human employees inside of any company is zero,” Miessler stated in a recent essay and YouTube video. “Companies are extremely unhappy with their current workforces, and just now—starting in 2023 and 2024—it is actually becoming possible to replace human intelligence tasks with technology.”
