AI Kiddies

In the 90s, the term “Script Kiddie” became popular in hacking communities. These were people who, contrary to what a hacker is (someone who seeks deep knowledge of any system to push it to its limits and create something better), used scripts created by others to attack or infiltrate systems.

They were people who only sought notoriety and had no deep knowledge of the inner workings and mechanisms of those exploits, and worst of all, they had no intention or curiosity to acquire it.

Due to their ignorance, Script Kiddies could cause a lot of damage because they didn’t truly understand the scope of what they were doing.

This isn’t exclusive to the world of hacking; bringing it to the present day, I believe there is a significant risk of a similar phenomenon occurring in the world of AI and agents.

I like to call this type of profile “AI Kiddies”—individuals blinded by the speed that AI and agents enable, but without ever diving deep into the fundamentals, taking risks they neither understand nor care to understand.

We are all (myself included) a bit like headless chickens, and that’s good because we can move faster than before, but only if it is later accompanied by a return in learning and knowledge that lays the foundation for future iterations; otherwise, we are building a giant with feet of clay.

It is the attitude of continuous learning that differentiates an “AI Kiddie” from an “Apprentice” (among whom I include myself).