Cybernetics: persistence and purpose-built tooling
A spoiler-free reflection on clearing Cybernetics, a large multi-domain enterprise AD lab. Not the exploit chains, but the two things that actually got me to the end: the persistence to keep returning to the same problem for the better part of a year, and the habit of building and adapting my own operator tooling to fit the lab instead of forcing the lab to fit off-the-shelf tools.