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Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era

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Re: Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era

#631

I’m sure the new model is a step above the old one but I can’t be the only person who’s getting tired of hearing about how every new iteration is going to spell doom/be a paradigm shift/change the entire tech industry etc. I would honestly go so far as to say the overhype is detrimental to actual measured adoption.

It’s great marketing to lead with how the n+1 model is so amazing that you can’t have it yet.

yeah, they gotta find a way to build hype on every new model release

Re: Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era

#632

I’m sure the new model is a step above the old one but I can’t be the only person who’s getting tired of hearing about how every new iteration is going to spell doom/be a paradigm shift/change the entire tech industry etc. I would honestly go so far as to say the overhype is detrimental to actual measured adoption.

> how every new iteration is going to spell doom/be a paradigm shift/change the entire tech industry etc. It's much the dynamic between parents and a child. The child, with limited hindsight, almost zero insight and no ability to forecast, is annoyed by their parents. Nothing bad ever happens! Why won't parents stop being so worried all the time and make a fuss over nothing? The parents, which the child somewhat star…

Disagree - we’re being told on one hand that we are 6 months away from AI writing all Code, and 3 months into that the tools are unusable for complex engineering [1]. Every time I mention this I’m told “but have you tried the latest model and this particular tool” - yes I have, but if I need to be on the hottest new model for it to be functional that means the last time you claimed it was solved, it wasn’t solved.

[0] https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/ai-ceo-says-softw...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47660925

Re: Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era

#633

I’m sure the new model is a step above the old one but I can’t be the only person who’s getting tired of hearing about how every new iteration is going to spell doom/be a paradigm shift/change the entire tech industry etc. I would honestly go so far as to say the overhype is detrimental to actual measured adoption.

> how every new iteration is going to spell doom/be a paradigm shift/change the entire tech industry etc. It's much the dynamic between parents and a child. The child, with limited hindsight, almost zero insight and no ability to forecast, is annoyed by their parents. Nothing bad ever happens! Why won't parents stop being so worried all the time and make a fuss over nothing? The parents, which the child somewhat star…

I'll have some of what you're having

Re: Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era

#634

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean if it helps I support the move to not release mythos right off the bat yeah? That makes sense, treat new models like new vulnerabilities and give companies time to scan with them etc. But you have to admit it does serve a savvy business purpose of creating a moat where one wasn’t by getting these tech companies on board and the threat does make for good marketing yeah?

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Normalcy bias is human nature. If human nature bothers you then you're going to be annoyed all the time.

Re: Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era

#635

Must be nice to be in a position to sell both disease and cure.

Yeah, I'd pretty pissed at my doctor for finding cancerous cells that probably wouldn't have been a problem for quite some time, either. Ignorance is bliss, security through obscurity, whatever.

You may joke, but this is a genuine issue in certain screening tests. e.g. most cancerous cells found in PSA prostate screening are so slow growing that they never cause any symptoms during a person's lifetime, so the treatment is almost always worse than the disease. It's similar for some sorts of thyroid and breast cancer tests. This is why a lot of countries are heavily reducing these sort of tests

Re: Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era

#636

I’m sure the new model is a step above the old one but I can’t be the only person who’s getting tired of hearing about how every new iteration is going to spell doom/be a paradigm shift/change the entire tech industry etc. I would honestly go so far as to say the overhype is detrimental to actual measured adoption.

> how every new iteration is going to spell doom/be a paradigm shift/change the entire tech industry etc. It's much the dynamic between parents and a child. The child, with limited hindsight, almost zero insight and no ability to forecast, is annoyed by their parents. Nothing bad ever happens! Why won't parents stop being so worried all the time and make a fuss over nothing? The parents, which the child somewhat star…

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Re: Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era

#637

I’m sure the new model is a step above the old one but I can’t be the only person who’s getting tired of hearing about how every new iteration is going to spell doom/be a paradigm shift/change the entire tech industry etc. I would honestly go so far as to say the overhype is detrimental to actual measured adoption.

> how every new iteration is going to spell doom/be a paradigm shift/change the entire tech industry etc. It's much the dynamic between parents and a child. The child, with limited hindsight, almost zero insight and no ability to forecast, is annoyed by their parents. Nothing bad ever happens! Why won't parents stop being so worried all the time and make a fuss over nothing? The parents, which the child somewhat star…

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Re: Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era

#638

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean if it helps I support the move to not release mythos right off the bat yeah? That makes sense, treat new models like new vulnerabilities and give companies time to scan with them etc. But you have to admit it does serve a savvy business purpose of creating a moat where one wasn’t by getting these tech companies on board and the threat does make for good marketing yeah?

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"There is NO shadow wizard marketing gang pulling the strings on every single thing those companies do"

Yes there is they are called marketing departments and it is their exact purpose.

Re: Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era

#639

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are they actually too dangerous to publicly release? It seems like a little bit of marketing from the model-producing companies to raise more funding. It's important to look at who specifically is making that statement and what their incentives are. There are hundreds of billions of dollars poured into this thing at this point.

You really think some marketers got leaders from companies across the industry to come together to make a video - and they're all in on the conspiracy because money?

How is that even remotely implausible?

Re: Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era

#640

I’m sure the new model is a step above the old one but I can’t be the only person who’s getting tired of hearing about how every new iteration is going to spell doom/be a paradigm shift/change the entire tech industry etc. I would honestly go so far as to say the overhype is detrimental to actual measured adoption.

Well Opus 4.5/4.6 kinda was right?

I mean software development has changed more since then than it has in my 30 year software development career.

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