Honestly hacking is such a low bar and it always has been.

There are some really intelligent and sophisticated hacks out there sure, but most companies can be penetrated by script kiddies & social engineering.

“We slammed a language model at 3 companies and Burton entire rivers and Forrest worth of energy to do it and after using a bunch of premade human tooling it got in because joe left his password as “password1” and never set up second factor auth”

It warms my heart that after your journey you realized there is still so much more to learn.

Many would leave it there and call themselves an expert