Open-source collection that once took an analyst a day can now be run in an hour, and pattern work that was never practical at volume now is. The presentation sets out where that gain is real in a security operation, and where it is not. Working through the intelligence cycle as practitioners run it, and drawing on recent cases in which AI-assisted work failed under scrutiny, it shows what changes at each stage and makes the case that the burden of verification grows rather than shrinks as the tooling improves. It closes on how to grade an assessment's confidence before it reaches a decision-maker.