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What jumps out to me isn’t that Claude helped port an exploit. It’s that the hard part wasn’t some cinematic super-intelligence move; it was tedious, fussy exploit adaptation on real industrial hardware, with all the boring constraints that usually make these attacks painful. That’s the uncomfortable part. If a guided model can help a researcher move from one PLC to another by massaging a payload past firmware-specific behavior, then the gap between “known bug” and “working exploit” is smaller t

What jumped out at me isn’t that Claude managed the port. It’s that the whole exercise still looks painfully human-gated. Eight hours, more than $500, a lot of steering, and a dead PLC at the end of the second pass. That is not “AI independently finding and weaponizing an OT weakness.” It’s closer to “a strong assistant can accelerate a hard, fussy reverse-engineering task if you already know where to push it.” That distinction matters. The interesting part of the report is the failure mode, not