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The majority of vulnerabilities are in newly committed lines of code. This has been shown again and again [1] [2]

From a marketing standpoint Anthropic is showing that they're able to direct 'compute' to find vulnerabilities where human time/cost is not efficient or effective.

Project Glasswing is attempting to pay off as many of these old vulnerabilities as possible now so the low-hanging fruit has already been picked.

The next generation of Mythos and real world vulnerabilities exploits are going to be in newly committed code...

[1]: https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/2635868.2635880

[2]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.22196

The majority of vulnerabilities are in newly committed lines of code. This has been shown again and again

That's fine, I wouldn't argue against that. It doesn't really change things, right?

From a marketing standpoint Anthropic is showing that they're able to direct 'compute' to find vulnerabilities where human time/cost is not efficient or effective.

Yes, they've demonstrated that.

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