John Gruber

It's a big fallout with the Pentagon.

It was classified a threat to the supply chain, like a whole big mess.

And evidently, this thing is so important and so powerful that the Trump administration has decided maybe this is how we become friends again.

All of this is to say,

I still have absolutely no idea how to feel about mythos, whether it's literally the end of the world or just a bit of really great fear-based marketing from Anthropic.

What is your read on it at this moment in time?

And as a useful reminder, it's like, you know how we talk all the time, everybody gets these like very intense cybersecurity trainings.

And what it actually amounts to is like people are stupid about clicking links in their email.

Every time.

Fundamentally, people are idiots is like the main security problem.

This is sort of how I feel about mythos is like, actually, we have so many bigger security risks that are just all of us living our lives every day that I don't even know if I have time to be worried about what this model can do to my web browser.

This model is so sick, you can't even use it.

It's like an unbelievably great marketing line.

I think that's right.

Where I've landed talking to people is...

whatever you believe about mythos in particular, and there's a lot of evidence to suggest that the thing mythos is doing is also possible for Opus and a lot of other models to do, that if you point these existing models at cybersecurity problems, they will also find bugs, that mythos is maybe better at it, but it's not a step change better at it.

But what is certainly true is that the AI models are getting better at cracking cybersecurity.

That is just a true thing that is happening.

And so even if you don't take mythos as the end of the world, but just a step towards a thing becoming slightly more dangerous all the time.

we're still right to sort of point at everybody and say, oh my God, we have to take a giant deep breath here and figure out what to do.