A few days ago Anthropic, one of the most important companies of the American AI industry, released a new tool called Claude Mythos that’s making thousands and thousands of software professionals lose their sleep. It may also be a big case of AI overrating and waste of energies.A great summary of why Mythos is the greatest nightmare of software managers is a Verge article by Yael Grauer titled “Attack of the killer script kiddies”. If you have never heard that term before, “Script kiddies” are people who try to break into computer systems for illegal purposes, but using only software tools (”scripts”) developed by others, because they aren’t skilled enough to write their own. Some quotes of that article are a perfect introduction to my thesis that Mythos isn’t really that interesting, so here they are, almost verbatim:Claude Mythos is a new AI model that seems to find vulnerabilities in every piece of software it’s pointed atfears are growing that not only can AI detect these flaws,…
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