> I thought Mythos was just a bunch of hype?
My opinion is that it is over-hyped because like any LLM, it requires a suitable human in the loop to keep the LLM on the straight and narrow, and then to weed through the inevitable false-positives and hallucinations.
Nicholas Carlini, for example, whose name is on many of the recent high-profile Mythos findings is not just some random dude with a Claude sub on his credit card .... he's an experienced security researcher.
Random inexperienced people thinking Mythos can replace the need for experienced pen-testers, auditors etc. are likely to be sorely disappointed if/when they get their hands on Mythos.
I think it's worth to look at the recent XBOW benchmark: https://xbow.com/blog/mythos-offensive-security-xbow-evaluat... they realized that ChatGPT 5.5 works better so the secret is in the architecture (including humans in the loop).
'frontier tokens are not fungible'
> likely to be sorely disappointed if/when they get their hands on Mythos.
At first they will be delighted. So much money and time saved. When their adversaries get their hands on their system (with or without Mythos), then they'll be sorely disappointed.