The 4-Year Gap In May 2022, I stopped publishing. I shifted focus to real-estate and AI Automation & RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) engineering. The Reality Check Coming back to Web3, I expected to see a more mature ecosystem. Instead, I found a massive security debt. While we built better L2s and ZK-rollups, the attackers built better extraction agents. Why the 2022 Playbook is Dead: Hyper-Personalized Phishing: AI bots scrape your GitHub/X to craft "dev-to-dev" messages you will trust. Automated Drains: Scammers are using RAG tech to find 1-line vulnerabilities in your legacy 2022 code. The Mailbox Vector: Leaked data is being used to mail physical "fake" hardware wallets to users. The $285M Drift Protocol Phishing hack earlier this month was the final proof for me. It wasn’t just a bad link; it was a multi-stage AI attack that bypassed institutional security. The Pivot I’m no longer just a dev. I’m turning into Security Architect at the intersection of AI and Web3. My New Stack Rule: In a world of AI-generated lies, Open Source is the only firewall. If it’s not open-source, it’s a vulnerability. Let’s get to work.