ToorCamp 2026

Working the Slop Mines
2026-06-27 , Prime Dome

As humans, things have gotten pretty weird. What does the world look like when difficult work is increasingly delegated to machines that have no sense of ego? What does crime look like? How can organizations structure themselves to survive in these sorts of rapidly shifting environments, and how can these tools empower individuals and the communities they care about?


This talk is going to cover a lot of SDLC hardening protips for creating development pipelines that can withstand firehoses of generative AI slop from all angles. From devs, from ops, from users, from bug bounty programs, and even from executives. Not by rejecting the slop, but by harnessing slop energy and riding it to new heights.

I also fully intend to go off on wild futurist tangents related to autonomous incentive structures, using zero knowledge execution proofs to accelerate bug triage / feature development, and what human computer interaction looks like in a world where people can just do things, and access to technology approaches the asymptote.

Dean Pierce is an offensive security researcher in Portland Oregon.

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