AI Is Tipping the Scales Toward Hackers After Mythos Release

thywis 14 points 7 comments April 11, 2026
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freedomben

If you maintain an open source project, you should absolutely run claude, codex, and gemini through your code base looking for security issues. It found some surprising vulns in some of my repos that were so subtle that even when it pointed them out to me, I still couldn't see the problem. I chatted back and forth for a bit and finally realized that it was right . Fixed the bugs and moved on.

add-sub-mul-div

More generally, AI is enabling predatory use cases more than positive use cases. There's more resources and more will behind the former.

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