I've done more penetration tests than I can count. Thousands. Maybe tens of thousands at this point. I've lost track. And if there's one thing I've learned from all those hours staring at terminals, it's this.

The hacking part is fun. The reporting part is a special kind of torture.

And everything in between? The recon. The enumeration. The screenshots. The ticket writing. The repetitive, soul-crushing, mind-numbing busywork that eats up 70 percent of your engagement?

That's the part that's killing pentesters. Not the WAFs. Not the EDR. The boring stuff.

So let's talk about automating it. All of it.