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by skywhopper 32 days ago
The point is that Anthropic claims it’s a huge leap over everything else. But it isn’t.
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This depends on the actual number of undiscovered bugs still in curl. If there is nothing to find then even a 10x better Mythos will find nothing. Also I think the quality of the codebase matters a lot when it comes to finding bugs. Its possible that the curl is so well written that it is relatively straightforward for existing ai tools to find bugs.
But both things can be true. It could be a huge leap (see Firefox’s example) but also find almost nothing in an already well maintained and audited codebase, and that could mean there isn’t much to find.
Okay, but how do we know that all 400 plus hits were actual vulnerabilities? I didn't read too deeply into it so I might've missed something but did someone test and validate each of those vulns to confirm that they were actually vulns?
There is no way to tell until we find examples of vulnerabilities that mythos missed. For all we know curl currently has 0 vulnerabilities right now