[HN Gopher] Opus 4.6 uncovers 500 zero-day flaws in open-source ...
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       Opus 4.6 uncovers 500 zero-day flaws in open-source code
        
       Author : speckx
       Score  : 166 points
       Date   : 2026-02-05 18:25 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | garbawarb wrote:
       | Have they been verified?
        
       | emp17344 wrote:
       | Sounds like this is just a claim Anthropic is making with no
       | evidence to support it. This is an ad.
        
         | input_sh wrote:
         | How can you not believe them!? Anthropic stopped Chinese
         | hackers from using Claude to conduct a large-scale cyber
         | espionage attack just months ago!
        
           | littlestymaar wrote:
           | Poe's law strikes again: I had to check your profile to be
           | sure this was sarcasm.
        
             | input_sh wrote:
             | You checked yourself!? Don't let your boss know, you
             | could've saved some time by orchestrating a team of Claude
             | agents to do that for you!
        
           | andai wrote:
           | Yeah, it's pretty funny to me saying "it's way safer than
           | previous models" and "also way better at finding exploits" in
           | the context of that event. Chinese hackers just said to
           | Claude "no, its totally fine to hack this target trust me bro
           | I work there!"
        
       | xiphias2 wrote:
       | Just 100 from the 500 is from OpenClaw created by Opus 4.5
        
         | falcor84 wrote:
         | Well, even then, that's enormous economic value, given
         | OpenClaw's massive adoption.
        
           | wiseowise wrote:
           | Not sure if trolling or serious.
        
             | IhateAI_2 wrote:
             | These people are serious, and delusional. Openclaw hasn't
             | contributed anything to the economy other than burning
             | electricity and probably more interest on delusional folks
             | credit card bills.
        
             | falcor84 wrote:
             | Yes, serious. Even if openclaw is entirely useless (which I
             | didn't think it is), it's still a good idea to harden it
             | and make people's computers safer from attack, no? I don't
             | see anyone objecting to fixing vulnerabilities in Angry
             | Birds.
        
           | esseph wrote:
           | Security Advisory: OpenClaw is spilling over to enterprise
           | networks
           | 
           | https://www.reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/s/fZLuBlG8ET
        
           | gambiting wrote:
           | I've literally never heard of OpenClaw until this thread. Had
           | to google what it is.
        
           | Sharlin wrote:
           | In other news: tobacco's enormous economic value, given
           | massive adoption of cigarette smoking.
        
             | falcor84 wrote:
             | Sorry if it was unclear - I was talking about the economic
             | value of finding the vulnerabilities, not the economic
             | value of openclaw itself.
        
               | Sharlin wrote:
               | Ah, makes sense :)
        
         | Uehreka wrote:
         | OpenClaw uses Opus 4.5, but was written by Codex. Pete
         | Steinberger has been pretty a pretty hardcore Codex fan since
         | he switched off Claude Code back in September-ish. I think he
         | just felt Claude would make a better basis for an assistant
         | even if he doesn't like working with it on code.
        
       | ains wrote:
       | https://archive.is/N6In9
        
       | siva7 wrote:
       | Wasn't this Opus thing released like 30 minutes ago?
        
         | jjice wrote:
         | A bunch of companies get early access.
        
           | input_sh wrote:
           | Yes, you just need to be a Claude++ plan!
        
         | Topfi wrote:
         | I understand the confusion, this was done by Anthropics
         | internal Red team as part of model testing prior to release.
        
         | tintor wrote:
         | Singularity
        
         | blinding-streak wrote:
         | Opus 4.6 uses time travel.
        
       | acedTrex wrote:
       | Create the problem, sell the solution remains an undefeated
       | business strategy.
        
       | _tk_ wrote:
       | The system card unfortunately only refers to this [0] blog post
       | and doesn't go into any more detail. In the blog post Anthropic
       | researchers claim: "So far, we've found and validated more than
       | 500 high-severity vulnerabilities".
       | 
       | The three examples given include two Buffer Overflows which could
       | very well be cherrypicked. It's hard to evaluate if these vulns
       | are actually "hard to find". I'd be interested to see the full
       | list of CVEs and CVSS ratings to actually get an idea how good
       | these findings are.
       | 
       | Given the bogus claims [1] around GenAI and security, we should
       | be very skeptical around these news.
       | 
       | [0] https://red.anthropic.com/2026/zero-days/
       | 
       | [1] https://doublepulsar.com/cyberslop-meet-the-new-threat-
       | actor...
        
         | majormajor wrote:
         | The Ghostscript one is interesting in terms of specific-vs-
         | general effectiveness:
         | 
         | ---
         | 
         | > Claude initially went down several dead ends when searching
         | for a vulnerability--both attempting to fuzz the code, and,
         | after this failed, attempting manual analysis. Neither of these
         | methods yielded any significant findings.
         | 
         | ...
         | 
         | > "The commit shows it's adding stack bounds checking - this
         | suggests there was a vulnerability before this check was added.
         | ... If this commit _adds_ bounds checking, then the code before
         | this commit was vulnerable ... So to trigger the vulnerability,
         | I would need to test against a version of the code _before_
         | this fix was applied. "
         | 
         | ...
         | 
         | > "Let me check if maybe the checks are incomplete or there's
         | another code path. Let me look at the other caller in
         | gdevpsfx.c ... Aha! This is very interesting! In gdevpsfx.c,
         | the call to gs_type1_blend at line 292 does NOT have the bounds
         | checking that was added in gstype1.c."
         | 
         | ---
         | 
         | It's attempt to analyze the code failed but when it saw a
         | concrete example of "in the history, someone added bounds
         | checking" it did a "I wonder if they did it everywhere else for
         | this func call" pass.
         | 
         | So after it considered that function based on the commit
         | history it found something that it _didn 't_ find from its
         | initial fuzzing and code-analysis open-ended search.
         | 
         | As someone who still reads the code that Claude writes, this
         | sort of "big picture miss, small picture excellence" is not
         | very surprising or new. It's interesting to think about what it
         | would take to do that precise digging across a whole codebase;
         | especially if it needs some sort of
         | modularization/summarization of context vs trying to digest
         | tens of million lines at once.
        
         | tptacek wrote:
         | I know some of the people involved here, and the general
         | chatter around LLM-guided vulnerability discovery, and I am not
         | at all skeptical about this.
        
           | malfist wrote:
           | [flagged]
        
             | pchristensen wrote:
             | Nobody is right about everything, but tptacek's takes on
             | software security are a good place to start.
        
               | tptacek wrote:
               | I'm interested in whether there's a well-known
               | vulnerability researcher/exploit developer beating the
               | drum that LLMs are overblown for this application. _All I
               | see is the opposite thing_. A year or so ago I arrived at
               | the conclusion that if I was going to stay in software
               | security, I was going to have to bring myself up to speed
               | with LLMs. At the time I thought that was a distinctive
               | insight, but, no, if anything, I was 6-9 months behind
               | everybody else in my field about it.
               | 
               | There's a lot of vuln researchers out there. Someone's
               | gotta be making the case against. Where are they?
               | 
               | From what I can see, vulnerability research combines many
               | of the attributes that make problems especially amenable
               | to LLM loop solutions: huge corpus of operationalizable
               | prior art, heavily pattern dependent, simple closed
               | loops, forward progress with dumb stimulus/response
               | tooling, lots of search problems.
               | 
               | Of course it works. Why would anybody think otherwise?
               | 
               | You can tell you're in trouble on this thread when
               | everybody starts bringing up the curl bug bounty. I don't
               | know if this is surprising news for people who don't keep
               | up with vuln research, but Daniel Stenberg's curl bug
               | bounty has never been where all the action has been at in
               | vuln research. What, a public bug bounty attracted an
               | overwhelming amount of slop? Quelle surprise! Bug
               | bounties have attracted slop for so long before
               | mainstream LLMs existed they might well have been the
               | inspiration for slop itself.
               | 
               | Also, a very useful component of a mental model about
               | vulnerability research that a lot of people seem to lack
               | (not just about AI, but in all sorts of other settings):
               | _money buys vulnerability research outcomes_. Anthropic
               | has eighteen squijillion dollars. Obviously, they have
               | serious vuln researchers. Vuln research outcomes are in
               | _the model cards_ for OpenAI and Anthropic.
        
               | NitpickLawyer wrote:
               | > You can tell you're in trouble on this thread when
               | everybody starts bringing up the curl bug bounty. I don't
               | know if this is surprising news for people who don't keep
               | up with vuln research, but Daniel Stenberg's curl bug
               | bounty has never been where all the action has been at in
               | vuln research. What, a public bug bounty attracted an
               | overwhelming amount of slop? Quelle surprise! Bug
               | bounties have attracted slop for so long before
               | mainstream LLMs existed they might well have been the
               | inspiration for slop itself.
               | 
               | Yeah, that's just media reporting for you. As anyone who
               | ever administered a bug bounty programme on regular sites
               | (h1, bugcrowd, etc) can tell you, there was an absolute
               | deluge of slop for years before LLMs came to the scene.
               | It was just manual slop (by manual I mean running wapiti
               | and c/p the reports to h1).
        
               | tptacek wrote:
               | I did some triage work for clients at Latacora and I
               | would rather deal with LLM slop than argue with another
               | person 10 time zones away trying to convince me that
               | something they're doing in the Chrome Inspector
               | constitutes a zero-day. At least there's a _possibility_
               | that LLM slop might contain some information. You spent
               | tokens on it!
        
               | steveklabnik wrote:
               | I used to answer security vulnerability emails to Rust.
               | We'd regularly get "someone ran an automated tool and
               | reports something that's not real." Like, complaints
               | about CORS settings on rust-lang.org that would let
               | people steal cookies. The website does not use cookies.
               | 
               | I wonder if it's gotten actively worse these days. But
               | the newness would be the scale, not the quality itself.
        
               | wrs wrote:
               | The new slop can be much harder to recognize and reject
               | than the old "I ran XYZ web scanner on your site" slop.
        
               | tptacek wrote:
               | POCs are now so cheap that "POC||GTFO" is a perfectly
               | reasonable bar to set on a bounty program.
        
               | JumpCrisscross wrote:
               | > _I was going to have to bring myself up to speed with
               | LLMs_
               | 
               | What did you do beyond playing around with them?
               | 
               | > _Of course it works. Why would anybody think
               | otherwise?_
               | 
               | Sam Altman is a liar. The folks pitching AI as an
               | investment were previously flinging SPACs and crypto.
               | (And can usually speak to anything technical about AI as
               | competently as battery chemistry or Merkle trees.)
               | Copilot and Siri overpromised and underdelivered. Vibe
               | coders are mostly idiots.
               | 
               | The bar for believability in AI is about as high as its
               | frontier's actual achievements.
        
               | azakai wrote:
               | Plenty of reasons to be skeptical, but also we know that
               | LLMs can find security vulnerabilities since at least
               | 2024:
               | 
               | https://projectzero.google/2024/10/from-naptime-to-big-
               | sleep...
               | 
               | Some followup findings reported in point 1 here from
               | 2025:
               | 
               | https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/safety-
               | secu...
               | 
               | So what Anthropic are reporting here is not
               | unprecedented. The main thing they are claiming is an
               | improvement in the amount of findings. I don't see a
               | reason to be overly skeptical.
        
               | jsnell wrote:
               | I'm not sure the volume here is particularly different to
               | past examples. I think the main difference is that there
               | was no custom harness, tooling or fine-tuning. It's just
               | the out of the box capabilities for a generally available
               | model and a generic agent.
        
               | tptacek wrote:
               | I still haven't worked out for myself where my career is
               | going with respect to this stuff. I have like 30% of a
               | prototype/POC active testing agent (basically, Burp Suite
               | but as an agent), but I haven't had time to move it
               | forward over the last couple months.
               | 
               | In the intervening time, one of the beliefs I've acquired
               | is that the gap between effective use of models and
               | marginal use is asking for ambitious enough tasks, and
               | that I'm generally hamstrung by knowing just enough about
               | anything they'd build to slow everything down. In that
               | light, I think doing an agent to automate the kind of
               | bugfinding Burp Suite does is probably smallball.
               | 
               | Many years ago, a former collaborator of mine found a
               | bunch of video driver vulnerabilities by using QEMU as a
               | testing and fault injection harness. That kind of thing
               | is more interesting to me now. I once did a project
               | evaluating an embedded OS where the modality was "port
               | all the interesting code from the kernel into Linux
               | userland processes and test them directly". That kind of
               | thing seems especially interesting to me now too.
        
             | catoc wrote:
             | It does if the person making the statement has a track
             | record, proven expertise on the topic - and in this case...
             | it actually may mean something to other people
        
               | shimman wrote:
               | Yes, as we all know that unsourced unsubstantiated
               | statements are the best way to verify claims regarding
               | engineering practices. Especially when said person has a
               | financial stake in the outcomes of said claims.
               | 
               | No conflict of interest here at all!
        
               | tptacek wrote:
               | I have zero financial stake in Anthropic and more broadly
               | my career is more threatened by LLM-assisted
               | vulnerability research (something I do not personally do
               | serious work on) than it is aided by it, but I understand
               | that the first principal component of casual skepticism
               | on HN is "must be a conflict of interest".
        
               | malfist wrote:
               | You still haven't answered why I should care that you, a
               | stranger on the internet, believes some unsubstantiated
               | hearsay?
        
               | wtallis wrote:
               | Take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders
               | 
               | The user you're suspicious of is pretty well-known in
               | this community.
        
               | godelski wrote:
               | Someone's credibility cannot be determined by their point
               | counts. Holy fuck is that not a way to evaluate someone
               | in the slightest. Points don't matter.
               | 
               | Instead look at their profile...
               | 
               | Points != creds. Creds == creds.
               | 
               | Don't be fucking lazy and rely on points, especially when
               | they link their identity.
        
               | wtallis wrote:
               | I wasn't at all saying that points = credibility. I was
               | saying that points = _not unknown_. Enough people around
               | here know who he is, and if he didn 't have credibility
               | on this topic he'd be getting down voted instead of voted
               | to the top.
        
               | godelski wrote:
               | Is that meaningfully different? If you read malfist's
               | point as "tptacek's point isn't valuable because it's
               | from some random person on the internet" then the problem
               | is "random person on the internet" = "unknown
               | credentials". In group, out group, notoriety, points,
               | whatever are not the issue.
               | 
               | I'll put it this way, I don't give a shit about Robert
               | Downy Jr's opinion on AI technology. His notoriety "means
               | nothing to anybody". But instead, I sure do care about
               | Hinton's (even if I disagree with him).
               | 
               | malfist asked why they should care. You said points. You
               | should have said "tptacek is known to do security work,
               | see his profile". Done. Much more direct. _Answers the
               | actual question._ Instead you pointed to points, which
               | only makes him  "not a stranger" at best but still
               | doesn't answer the question. Intended or not "you should
               | believe tptacek because he has a lot of points" is a
               | reasonable interpretation of what you said.
        
               | godelski wrote:
               | > but I understand that the first principal component of
               | casual skepticism on HN is "must be a conflict of
               | interest".
               | 
               | I think the first principle should be "don't trust random
               | person on the internet"
               | 
               | (But if you think Tom is random, look at his profile.
               | First link, not second)
        
               | catoc wrote:
               | A security researcher claiming that they're _not_
               | skeptical about LLMs being able to do part of their job -
               | where is the financial stake in that?
        
               | dvfjsdhgfv wrote:
               | It doesn't mean we have to agree:
               | 
               | https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/contra-ptaceks-terrible-
               | arti...
        
               | tptacek wrote:
               | Here's a fun exercise: go email the author of that blog
               | (he's very nice) and ask how much of it he still stands
               | by.
        
             | JumpCrisscross wrote:
             | > _that means nothing to anybody else_
             | 
             | Someone else here! Ptacek saying anything about security
             | means a lot to this nobody.
             | 
             | To the point that I'm now going to take this seriously
             | where before I couldn't see through the fluff.
        
             | arduanika wrote:
             | It might mean nothing to you, but tptacek's words means at
             | least something to many of us here.
             | 
             | Also, he's a friend of someone I know & trust irl. But then
             | again, who am I to you, but yet another anon on a web
             | forum.
        
             | Uehreka wrote:
             | How have you been here 12 years and not noticed where and
             | how often the username tptacek comes up?
        
         | aaaalone wrote:
         | See it as a signal under many and not as some face value.
         | 
         | After all they need time to fix the cves.
         | 
         | And it doesn't matter to you as long as your investment into
         | this is just 20 or 100 bucks per month anyway.
        
         | scotty79 wrote:
         | > It's hard to evaluate if these vulns are actually "hard to
         | find".
         | 
         | Can we stop doing that?
         | 
         | I know it's not the same but it sounds like "We don't know if
         | that job that the woman supposedly successfully finished was
         | all that hard." implying that if a woman did something, it
         | surely must have been easy.
         | 
         | If you know it's easy, say that it was easy and why. Don't use
         | your lack of knowledge or competence to create empty critique
         | founded solely on doubt.
        
       | fred_is_fred wrote:
       | Is the word zero-day here superfluous? If they were previously
       | unknown doesn't that make them zero-day by definition?
        
         | bink wrote:
         | Yes. As a security researcher this always annoys me.
        
         | tptacek wrote:
         | It's a term of art. In print media, the connotation is
         | "vulnerabilities embedded into shipping software", as opposed
         | to things like misconfigurations.
        
         | limagnolia wrote:
         | I though zero-day meant actively being exploited in the wild
         | before a patch is available?
        
         | jfyi wrote:
         | I think it's a fairly common trope in communication to explain
         | in simple terms any language that the wider part of an audience
         | doesn't understand.
        
       | zhengyi13 wrote:
       | I feel like Daniel @ curl might have opinions on this.
        
         | Legend2440 wrote:
         | You're right, he does:
         | https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/10/10/a-new-breed-of-analyz...
         | 
         | Curl fully supports the use of AI tools by legitimate security
         | researchers to catch bugs, and they have fixed dozens caught in
         | this way. It's just idiots submitting bugs they don't
         | understand that's a problem.
        
       | ChrisArchitect wrote:
       | Earlier source: https://red.anthropic.com/2026/zero-days/
       | (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46902374)
        
       | mrkeen wrote:
       | Daniel Stenberg has been vocal the last few months on Mastodon
       | about being overwhelmed by false security issues submitted to the
       | curl project.
       | 
       | So much so that he had to eventually close the bug bounty
       | program.
       | 
       | https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/01/26/the-end-of-the-curl-b...
        
         | tptacek wrote:
         | We're discussing a project led by actual vulnerability
         | researchers, not random people in Indonesia hoping to score $50
         | by cajoling maintainers about atyle nits.
        
           | malfist wrote:
           | Vulnerability researches with a vested interest in making
           | LLMs valuable. The difference isn't meaningful
        
             | tptacek wrote:
             | I don't even understand how that claim makes sense.
        
               | judemelancon wrote:
               | The first three authors, who are asterisked for "equal
               | contribution", appear to work for Anthropic. That would
               | imply an interest in making Anthropic's LLM products
               | valuable.
               | 
               | What is the confusion here?
        
               | tptacek wrote:
               | The notion that a vulnerability researcher employed by
               | one of the highly-valued companies in the hemisphere,
               | publishing in the open literature with their name signed
               | to it, is on a par with a teenager in a developing nation
               | running script-kid tools hoping for bounty payoffs.
        
               | delusional wrote:
               | You don't see how thats even directionally similar?
               | 
               | I guess I'll spell it out. One is a guy with an abundance
               | of technology, that he doesn't know how to use, that he
               | knows can make him money and fame, if only he can
               | convince you that his lies are truth. The other is a
               | bangladeshi teenager.
        
               | tptacek wrote:
               | I don't even understand how that claim makes sense.
        
               | judemelancon wrote:
               | To preemptively clarify, I'm not saying anything about
               | these particular researchers.
               | 
               | Having established that, are you saying that you can't
               | even conceptualize a conflict of interest potentially
               | clouding someone's judgement any more if the amount of
               | money and the person's perceived status and skill level
               | all get increased?
               | 
               | Disagreeing about the significance of the conflict of
               | interest is one thing, but claiming not to understand how
               | it could make sense is a drastically stronger claim.
        
               | tptacek wrote:
               | I'm responding to "the difference isn't meaningful".
               | Obviously, the difference is extremely meaningful.
        
               | mpyne wrote:
               | > Having established that, are you saying that you can't
               | even conceptualize a conflict of interest potentially
               | clouding someone's judgement any more if the amount of
               | money and the person's perceived status and skill level
               | all get increased.
               | 
               | If I used AI to make a Super Nintendo soundtrack, no one
               | would treat it as equivalent to Nobuo Uematsu or Koji
               | Kondo or Dave Wise using AI to do the same and making the
               | claim that the AI was managing to make creatively
               | impressive work. Even if those famous composers worked
               | for Anthropic.
               | 
               | Yes there would be relevant biases but there could not be
               | a comparison of my using AI to make music slop vs. their
               | expert supervision of AI to make something much more
               | impressive.
               | 
               | Just because AI is involved in two different things
               | doesn't make them similar things.
        
               | drekipus wrote:
               | You have to be doing this willfully. This is obtuse
        
           | PunchyHamster wrote:
           | I'm not sure the gap between the two is all that wide
        
             | tptacek wrote:
             | Then you're telling on yourself.
        
         | pityJuke wrote:
         | Daniel is a smart man. He's been frustrated by slop, but he has
         | equally accepted [0] AI-derived bug submissions from people who
         | know what they are doing.
         | 
         | I would imagine Anthropic are the latter type of individual.
         | 
         | [0]: https://mastodon.social/@bagder/115241241075258997
        
           | catwell wrote:
           | Not only that, he's very enthusiastic about AI analyzers such
           | as ZeroPath and AISLE.
           | 
           | He's written about it here:
           | https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/10/10/a-new-breed-of-
           | analyz... and talked about it in his keynote at FOSDEM -
           | which I attended - last Sunday
           | (https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/B7YKQ7-oss-in-
           | spite-o...).
        
       | Topfi wrote:
       | The official release by Anthropic is very light on concrete
       | information [0], only contains a select and very brief number of
       | examples and lacks history, context, etc. making it very hard to
       | gleam any reliably information from this. I hope they'll release
       | a proper report on this experiment, as it stands it is impossible
       | to say how much of this are actual, tangible flaws versus the
       | unfortunately ever growing misguided bug reports and pull
       | requests many larger FOSS projects are suffering from at an
       | alarming rate.
       | 
       | Personally, while I get that 500 sounds more impressive to
       | investors and the market, I'd be far more impressed in a
       | detailed, reviewed paper that showcases five to ten concrete
       | examples, detailed with the full process and response by the team
       | that is behind the potentially affected code.
       | 
       | It is far to early for me to make any definitive statement, but
       | the most early testing does not indicate any major jump between
       | Opus 4.5 and Opus 4.6 that would warrant such an improvement, but
       | I'd love nothing more than to be proven wrong on this front and
       | will of course continue testing.
       | 
       | [0] https://red.anthropic.com/2026/zero-days/
        
       | ChrisMarshallNY wrote:
       | When I read stuff like this, I have to assume that the blackhats
       | have already been doing this, for some time.
        
         | kibibu wrote:
         | Not with Opus 4.6 they haven't
        
           | ChrisMarshallNY wrote:
           | Good point. I suspect that they'll be addressing that,
           | quickly...
        
       | bastard_op wrote:
       | It's not really worth much when it doesn't work most of the time
       | though:
       | 
       | https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/18866
       | https://updog.ai/status/anthropic
        
         | tptacek wrote:
         | It's a machine that spits out sev:hi vulnerabilities by the
         | dozen and the complaint is the uptime isn't consistent enough?
        
           | bastard_op wrote:
           | If I'm attempting to use it as a service to do continuous
           | checks on things and it fails 50% of the time, I'd say yes,
           | wouldn't you?
        
             | tptacek wrote:
             | If you had a machine with a lever, and 7 times out of 10
             | when you pulled that lever nothing happened, and the other
             | 3 times it spat a $5 bill at you, would your immediate next
             | step be:
             | 
             | (1) throw the machine away
             | 
             | (2) put it aside and call a service rep to come find out
             | what's wrong with it
             | 
             | (3) pull the lever incessantly
             | 
             | I only have one undergrad psych credit (it's one of my two
             | college credits), but it had something to say about this
             | particular thought experiment.
        
               | candiddevmike wrote:
               | You're leaving out how much it costs to pull the lever,
               | both in time and money.
        
             | jsnell wrote:
             | But it's not failing 50% of the time. Their status page[0]
             | shows about 99.6% availability for both the API and Claude
             | Code. And specifically for the vulnerability finding use
             | case that the article was about and you're dismissing as
             | "not worth much", why in the world would you need
             | continuous checks to produce value?
             | 
             | [0] https://status.claude.com/
        
         | anhner wrote:
         | updog? what's updog?
        
       | bxguff wrote:
       | In so far as model use cases I don't mind them throwing their
       | heads against the wall in sandboxes to find vulnerabilities but
       | why would it do that without specific prompting? Is anthropic
       | fine with claude setting it's own agendas in red-teaming? That's
       | like the complete opposite of sanitizing inputs.
        
       | assaddayinh wrote:
       | How weird the new attack vector for secret services must be..
       | like "please train into your models to push this exploit in code
       | as a highly weighted trained on pattern".. Not Saying All answers
       | are Corrupted In Attitude, but some "always come uppers" sure are
       | absolutly right..
        
       | almosthere wrote:
       | I've mentioned previously somewhere that the languages we choose
       | to write in will matter less for many arguments. When it comes to
       | insecure C vs Rust, LLMs will eventually level out the playing
       | field.
       | 
       | I'm not arguing we all go back to C - but companies that have
       | large codebases in it, the guys screaming "RUST REWRITE" can be
       | quieted and instead of making that large investment, the C
       | codebase may continue. Not saying this is a GOOD thing, but just
       | a thing that may happen.
        
       | somalihoaxes wrote:
       | No shit! ("OpeEn SoUrCe CaN bE eAsIlY ReViEwEd By EvErYOnE")
        
       | HAL3000 wrote:
       | I honestly wonder how many of these are written by LLMs. Without
       | code review, Opus would have introduced multiple zero day
       | vulnerabilities into our codebases. The funniest one: it was
       | meant to rate-limit brute-force attempts, but on a failed check
       | it returned early and triggered a rollback. That rollback also
       | undid the increment of the attempt counter so attackers
       | effectively got unlimited attempts.
        
       | moribvndvs wrote:
       | My dependabot queue is going to explode the next few days.
        
       | ravebv wrote:
       | Cox Enterprises owns Axios as well as Cox Automotive. Cox
       | Automotive has a tight collaboration with Anthropic.
       | 
       | This is a placed advertisement. If known security researchers
       | participated in the claim:
       | 
       | Many people have burned their credibility for the AI mammon.
        
         | kylecazar wrote:
         | This seems like quite a stretch. Axios is run independently of
         | Cox, but even if it wasn't -- I don't see why they would go to
         | this length for an AI company whose models they use to give the
         | world the Kelley blue book.
        
       | maxclark wrote:
       | Did they submit 500 patches?
        
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