Daniel Stenberg, curl's maintainer, shares his assessment of Anthropic's Mythos AI model after it found a vulnerability in curl's codebase. Despite the hype around Mythos being too dangerous for public release, Stenberg concludes the model's findings are not significantly better than other AI-powered code analyzers. He does affirm, however, that modern AI models as a class are substantially better at finding security flaws than traditional static analysis tools, making vulnerability discovery accessible to a much wider audience.

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