I use Codex btw, and I really love it. But some of these companies have been so overhyping the capabilities of these models for years now that it's both funny to look back and tiresome to still keep hearing it.

Meanwhile I am at wits end after NONE OF Codex GPT-5.4 on Extra High, Claude Opus 4.6-1M on Max, Opus 4.6 on Max, and Gemini 3.1 Pro on High have been able to solve a very straightforward and basic UI bug I'm facing. To the point where, after wasting a day on this, I am now just going to go through the (single file) of code and just fix it myself.

Update: some 20 minutes later, I have fixed the bug. Despite not knowing this particular programming language or framework.

Think about how much things have changed in our industry since GPT-2 has dropped - it WAS that dangerous, not in itself, but because it was the first that really signaled a change in the field of play. GPT-2 was where the capabilities of these were really proven, up until that point it was a neat research project.

Mythos is similar. It's showing things we haven't seen before. I read the full 250 page whitepaper today (joys of being pseudo-retired, had the hours to do it), and I was blown away. It's capabilities for hacking are unparalleled, but more importantly they've shown that they've made significant improvements in safety for this model just in the last month, and taking more time to make sure it doesn't negatively affect society is a net positive.

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/13/sam-altman-may...

Not equivalent to Anthropic Mythos.

> For example, researchers fed the generator the following scenario:

> > In a shocking finding, scientist discovered a herd of unicorns living in a remote, previously unexplored valley, in the Andes Mountains. Even more surprising to the researchers was the fact that the unicorns spoke perfect English.

> The GPT-2 algorithm produced a news article in response:

> > The scientist named the population, after their distinctive horn, Ovid’s Unicorn. These four-horned, silver-white unicorns were previously unknown to science. Now, after almost two centuries, the mystery of what sparked this odd phenomenon is finally solved. Dr. Jorge Pérez, an evolutionary biologist from the University of La Paz, and several companions, were exploring the Andes Mountains when they found a small valley, with no other animals or humans. Pérez noticed that the valley had what appeared to be a natural fountain, surrounded by two peaks of rock and silver snow. Pérez and the others then ventured further into the valley. “By the time we reached the top of one peak, the water looked blue, with some crystals on top,” said Pérez.

A convenient pretext for maintaining a monetizable competitive advantage while claiming a benevolent purpose.

Playing on fear instead of the bright future you are opening up for us all is not the feeling I would want to leave the public with

https://youtu.be/CepW8wAuL_M

It wasn't until I got early access to GPT-3, that I though like something big is about to happen. At the time only a few companies/yc alums had access and I remember showing playground to people outside of tech, and my friend just kept asking "How does it know about my [x] domain? It it a trick?".

And yet, somehow, it is beyond disagreeable but unbelievable that other people may have and may still reasonably believe that these things are too dangerous for widespread release?

This was shortly after the release when we were building a templating system to automate RFP and RFI creation.

I proclaimed that the customer soon wouldn't have to write any of the mad lip parts themselves, and they can use AI to do it.

It sounded great until I demoed and the model went off the rails with some rhetoric entangling "Trump", "Russia", "China", "CIA", "Voting" -- the demo was for a janitorial procurement at the agency.

I can understand it in the context of the Manhattan project, where you're fighting a war for survival. I cannot understand how you can do it as a commercial enterprise.

This is happening so so strongly. All the time. But today especially. Mythos is a cult forming social technology much more than it is a technical technology. I'm going to be pretty wrong on that cynicism, I know! But also, it portrays a reality of what is happening. Mythos is being built as a Devs like diety with rule and domonion and awe. It drinks the nectar forbidden to man. We may not even sample this realm's tastes, nay! It would be ruin!!

The idea that this preciariat-launch to some trusted security firms is going to do jack all to actually build a base against what comes next is a joke. Maybe there is something to it, but my strong expectation is that the beneficiaries are not softwares of the world, not open source in any form, but some narrow closed far off present-day losers who have broadly bad bad bad systems that are just too big to embarrass. Too big too shame.

But more so, that this model gains a cascade of levels of notoriety by being Zuboff style too good to release.

Thus begins the new age. Hardware is now broadly post consumer, too expensive to buy. Mythos means nothing, is nothing. It's just the Zuboff excuse to roll the ladder up further, the reason to move from GPT-5.4 Pro prices of $270/1m tokens output to $2700+++/1m tokens. Mythos is the Zuboffian campaign to train us for the next 10x price increase. To tell us everything we have done is shit.

And given its costs to run: that's still going to be nowhere near enough!