A quick look at Mythos run on Firefox: too much hype?

> I guess if you run the source code through the model a 10,000 times, some useful stuff falls out.

But you might also get a lot of non-useful stuff which you'll need to sort out.

Hackernews has also been completely co-opted by boosters.

So much that i don't really visit anymore after 15 years of use.

It's a bizarre situation with billions in marketing and PR, astroturfing and torrents of fake news with streams of comments beneath them with zero skepticism and an almost horrifying worship of these billion dollar companies.

Something completely flipped here at some point, i don't know if it's because YC is also heavily pro these companies, and embedded with them, requiring YC applicants to slop code their way in, then cheering about it.

Either way it's incredibly sad and remind me of the worst casino economy, nft's, crypto, web3 while there's actually an interesting core, regex on steroids with planning aspects, but it's constantly oversold.

I say that as a daily user of Claude Max for over a year.

While the text seems to be at least AI-supported, I think the research is still interesting. Whether that was done mostly by the author or an AI still, does not change much to me at least.

I'd appreciate some sort of disclaimer at the start of each article whether it's AI written/assisted or not. But I guess authors understand that it will diminish the perceived value of their work/part.

In the same article you linked:

> Due to concerns about large language models being used to generate deceptive, biased, or abusive language at scale, we are only releasing a much smaller version of GPT‑2 along with sampling code .

7 years later, these concerns seem pretty legit.

I think a certain level of hype is warranted for a model that can autonomously discover complex 27-year-old 0-days in OpenBSD for $20K[0]. We don't yet know what this does to the balance of attack/defense in OSS security, and we cannot know until the capability is widespread. My most hopeful guess is that it looks heavily in favor of attackers in the first 6-12 months while the oldest 0-days are still waiting to be discovered, before tipping in favor of defenders as the price goes down for Mythos-level models and the practice of using them for vulnerability review becomes widespread.

The absolute best case is at we end up with similar situation to modern cryptography, which is clearly in favor of defenders. One can imagine a world where a defender can run a codebase review for $X compute and patch all the low-hanging fruit, to the point where anything that remains for an attacker would cost $X*100000 (or some other large multiplier) to discover.

[0] https://red.anthropic.com/2026/mythos-preview/

Probably you're right, but given the browser usage-distribution, I reckon most hackers wouldn't care about firefox at this point and solely concentrate on chrome. I reckon firefox users are on average, more tech savvy and given a hack, would be able to help themselves/find out about the hack quicker than the average chrome user.