A lot of those bugs were found by seasoned developers and security professionals though. Anthropic claims that Mythos is finding vulns from people who have no security background, who just typed "hey, go find a vulnerability in X", went home for the night, and came back the next morning with a PoC ready. They could definitely be an exaggerating, but if it's true that's a very different threat category which is worth paying attention to.

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qingcharles 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Previous models have done this just fine. For the last year, whenever a new model has come out I just point it at some of my repos and say something like "scan this entire codebase, look for bugs, overengineering, security flaws etc" and they always find a few useful things. Obviously each new model does this better than the last, though.

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causal 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yes, previous models found vulnerabilities but Mythos is uniquely capable of actually exploiting them: https://red.anthropic.com/2026/mythos-preview/

	▲	pxc 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Imo that's a big deal primarily because the issue with automatically discerned vulnerabilities has long been a high volume of reports and a very bad signal-to-noise ratio. When an LLM is capable of developing PoC exploits, that means you finally have a tool that enables meaningfully triaging reports like this.