AI Agents vs Code Vulnerabilities: Was Anthropic Mythos a Big Deal or Fear-mongering?

On April 7 Anthropic published technical Mythos report ,as well as announced Claude Mythos Preview and Project Glasswing . The claim was that their newest model could autonomously identify and exploit real vulnerabilities in major open-source projects at unprecedented scale. One of Anthropic's public showcase examples was the Linux kernel, which is not some toy repo but the operating system underneath a huge share of the Internet's server infrastructure. Start Claude Code, choose Mythos model an