Jeff Crume

IBM security veteran and IBM Technology presenter. Originally cybersecurity explainers, now also does AI-workforce framings ("distinguished engineer" register). Self-described as "old enough to have lived" the 1990s security-tooling debates — brings a historical lens to AI-industry panics generally.

Positions in this vault

• The S.A.T.A.N precedent (AI Zero-Days and the S.A.T.A.N Lesson (IBM Technology)): AI zero-day finders are a rerun of the 1995 vulnerability-scanner controversy — dual-use tools end up as standard defensive kit, and the winner is whoever uses them best. "It's AI versus AI."
• The pyramid-to-diamond model (AI Gave You A Promotion (IBM Technology)): AI transforms roles from a pyramid (many entry-level, few execs) to a diamond (many experienced-tier, fewer entry-level). Anchored on Jevons Paradox — cheaper per-task labor drives up total demand. IBM's stated commitment: "IBM is planning to hire two to three times as many entry-level people in 2026 as it did in the previous year, and that's with AI."
• Prescriptions across both: DevSecOps (every release through the AI wringer); the four AI-era skills — flexibility, curiosity, creativity, critical thinking; internships to preserve the entry-level pipeline as the pyramid narrows.

Cross-links

• AI Vulnerability Discovery · Project Glasswing (the gatekeeping counter-position)
• Pyramid to Diamond (Role Transformation) · Jevons Paradox · AI Adoption and Headcount Growth
• Higher-Order Thinking — the same load-bearing skill Justin Sung names; Crume's "critical thinking" is the same target
• Martin Keen — fellow IBM Technology presenter