That time an Agentic AI Pentester beat me in CAPIE!

## Setting the Scene

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Let me tell you a story I never thought I’d write. As someone who’s been
in the pentesting world for years, developing courses and certifications
like **CAPIE**, I thought I’d seen it all. But then along came a team
from **Shinobi.Security**, led by a guy you might know on social media
as **Deathspirate**. They asked if they could take on my CAPIE exam — -the
one I’d painstakingly built to be a real challenge, especially for AI.

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I designed this exam with a clear purpose: to push boundaries. It was
never meant to be a cakewalk. I loaded it up with **business logic
flaws, broken access control issues, IDOR vulnerabilities, and tricky
corner cases**. These were the kinds of nuanced problems I thought would
stump even the cleverest AI systems.

And honestly? I was a little cocky. I figured this would be the moment
where I could confidently say, “See? Machines still can’t beat human
creativity.”