| > My personal conclusion can however not end up with anything else than that the big hype around this model so far was primarily marketing. I think the results say more about the great job the curl team has done maintaining their codebase. This doesn’t mean Anthropic's Project Glasswing is a marketing stunt. Logically, it doesn’t make sense: when they announced Mythos Preview, Anthropic couldn’t meet customer demand; they didn’t have enough compute to go around. So they decide to hype an unreleased product to drive even more demand? All that would do is piss off their existing customers who already experiencing rationing and frequent outages. Many forums were already flooded with "I cancelled Claude Code" as it was. On the contrary, it would be incredibly irresponsible and unethical for such a young company with billions of dollars of other people’s money invested in them. Because the Mozilla team used Mythos and found 271 vulnerabilities [1], does that mean they're in on the so-called "marketing stunt"? Of course, if Anthropic had released Mythos to the public and bad actors used it to hack a large number of banks, hospitals, government agencies, etc. in a matter of days, the HN crowd would be all over them for acting irresponsibly and criticizing them for not knowing better. [1]: "Behind the Scenes Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview" — https://hacks.mozilla.org/2026/05/behind-the-scenes-hardenin... |
Mozilla is the current poster child but 271 in such a large codebase with thousands of user options, most of them being TOCTOU isn't that much. Sorry. TOCTOU can happen in any language when people are simply exhausted by the sheer volume of case explosions.
There is a third option: Anthropic could simply have reported the issue without mentioning the new model at all. But they don't, since they want to sell to governments and military and the artificial scarcity just provides a veneer of exclusivity that their clients will appreciate.