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That's the irony of Mythos. It doesn't need to exist. LLM vibe slop has already eroded the security of your average site.


Self fulfilling prophecy: You don't need to secure anything because it doesn't make a difference, as Mythos is not just a delicious Greek beer, but also a super-intelligent system that will penetrate any of your cyber-defenses anyway.


In some ways Mythos (like many AI things) can be used as the ultimate accountability sink.

These libraries/frameworks are not insecure because of bad design and dependency bloat. No! It's because a mythical LLM is so powerful that it's impossible to defend against! There was nothing that could be done.


Mythos is the new DDoS or “state-level actors”.


Explain more about this beer.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythos_Beer

I really like it. Recommended.


Conspiracy theory: they intentionally seeded the world with millions of slop PRs and now they’re “catching bugs” with Mythos




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