Anthropic Mythos: Truth vs. Hype
I do expect Anthropic Mythos and GPT 5.4 Cyber to be an improvement over current models. Yet, there is a healthy dose of marketing hype in all of the recent press around each, especially Mythos. Call me skeptical given that IPOs loom for each company.
I mean, Treasury secretary Scott Bessent warning us about Mythos? Please. Ye know not what ye speak. Is the Federal Government getting warrants on the IPO? Is the hype part of Anthropic’s Govt. contract? Are the early “Project Glasswing” customers getting a discount in exchange for saying nice things?
I just don’t believe that chip architecture has sufficiently evolved to the point where LLMs can reason at the level I would like to see, which would be to exercise common sense around problem solving when writing code. The models still have blind spots to where humans must be involved in the software coding process - especially as it relates to reviewing code.
The good news is once I have Mythos for a week or two, I’ll know what’s real and what’s hype.