You seem to look down on automated actions. But where do you draw the line? So much is already automated by everything you do on the computer. Do you communica

You seem to look down on automated actions. But where do you draw the line? So much is already automated by everything you do on the computer. Do you communicate with web servers using netcat? Do you open raw sockets and forge your own SYN packets? Do you compute cryptographic signatures with you pocket calculator? Do you write programs in Assembler instead of C or Python? No, because in most cases it would be a tremendous waste of time. Why insist on others going through the same motions you did instead of just publishing your exploit or offensive security tool? Why would you reinvent the wheel if the problem has already been solved by someone else? (Unless for academic purposes.) There is nothing wrong with tapping into the gigantic hive mind that is modern whitehat hacking. Today, we tend to go for the "standing on the shoulders of giants" approach instead hindering progress by gatekeeping our own achievements.