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My take on the Claude Mythos claims (reportedly very good at offensive cybersecurity) - I think the claims are legit - the industry catch up to fix and raise to the level will be somewhat painful

- mythos will be expensive. I think 10x Opus 4.6. So above script kiddy but affordable for a big enough org - it is conveniently good marketing for Anthropic IPO (see later point)

- Anthropic happened to have reached this level and they had to announce it now to reap the benefit of « thousands of vulnerabilities found », the next contender will get what remains (low)

- I think this means that software will be more expensive, not less and that an software editor brings value (sharing the cost around « coding ». I base that on the security aspect and others I am seeing

- as a non security person, you could think security researcher are out of a job but I think they can do more and will be asked to do more.

Also reading between the lines, cybersecurity is just the domain that anthropic decided to apply mythos on. Other domains will follow and thinking about price per value will be more important than ever

The cost (and maybe some regulations) can also have interesting geopolitical consequences: a nation-state with deep pockets will be able to find zero-days on a number of software whose owner can't afford it and add them to its private collection.