AI Security Startups are Overhyped Cost Drivers

Took the chance to vent about these AI security firms that sell 2048‑pixel dashboards promising 360‑degree risk coverage. Sounding all‑modern while still leaking the same OOTB sysdig logs no one actually tunes. After years of relying on conventional log correlation to crush 19th century worm scripts, here come “Machine Learning” that bounces every query it hasn’t memorised. Proof: more vendors use out‑of‑bag confidence scores than we get accurate alerts. Or whatever it is. This just creates a full‑filled budget waterfall – spend up front on fancy models that anyone else can replicate for the cost of a dozen engineers. Keep saying your system keeps "predicting," but in reality, there’s almost no negative predictive power saved after six months. I'd like real data from firms that actually added non‑duplicate detections. Show how AI stops exploitation on any hard‑wires or packet flows you already know how to watch. Until I see that, keep hyping it.