Source: Marcus on AI
Claude's Mythos model sparked inflated media coverage, but the underlying concern is legitimate: LLM-generated code is proliferating faster than security practices can contain it. The risk isn't one model's capabilities, but the gap between developer adoption of agent-written code and the baseline hygiene needed to catch vulnerabilities before deployment. Organizations are already shipping code written by systems they don't fully audit, creating a widening surface for exploits that assumes yesterday's threat model.