Hey friends! Today I'm talking about Baby's First Neo — and to be crystal clear, I don't mean Keanu, and I don't mean the R&B guy with the hat. I mean the AI-powered pentest assistant from our pals at ProjectDiscovery. Also to be crystal clear: this is not a sponsorship, ad, partnership or anything of the sort. Just me sharing a thing I like so you can decide if you like it too.
Here's what we get into:
- Why I didn't renew my ProjectDiscovery cloud subscription after a full year of running it side-by-side with Nessus — including the three things that ground my gears (one of which had me angry like the Hulk inside)
- The Palo Alto finding that made me plunk down a credit card and buy PD in the first place
- What happened when I actually told their team why I was canceling — and the surprise offer that followed
- How I set up my first Neo project, and the multi-paragraph prompt I fed it (spoiler: "please don't go rogue" was in there)
- Where Neo beat my manual process — and the two subdomains it found that I flat-out missed
- The OSINT recommendation Neo made about a job posting that I thought was genuinely smart
- My one big hesitation about the credit-based pricing model, and why a part two of this series is probably coming soon
Then we close out with the tangent portion of the program: Grandma 7MS might be my neighbor soon, she bought a vehicle roughly the size of a small nation, and I'm asking for some good vibes on her house hunt. Also, thank you again to everybody who has sent kind messages since my dad passed — it means more than you know.
