How much do you rely on automation vs manual work in vulnerability hunting?

I’ve been thinking about how workflows are evolving as security tooling keeps getting better. When I first got into vulnerability hunting, I tried to do everything manually: mapping out the attack surface, testing logic step by step, and really trying to understand how things work under the hood. It felt slower, but also like the best way to actually learn. More recently, I’ve been experimenting with bringing automation in much earlier. Instead of