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GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities

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Re: GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities

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You should try a better harness. Try pi, or ohmypi if you want a good OOB experience

what is a harness? The comments below are mixing IDE/ADE but other suggestions are purely terminal things and I don't get what their value is over just a terminal. Is a harness like a loop where it's just a vague thing that everyone nods about but everyone is nodding at something different?

harnesss == thing that calls LLM API, acts on response, and maybe does that again.

Re: GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities

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This is absolutely still shy of Sol and Fable, but only just by a hair. Ridiculous results. There's still not a compelling economic reason to drop OpenAI courtesy of the ludicrous reset addiction that's taken place, but it feels like we're on the precipice. How are you all toying with running this kind of thing in a mega quantized way locally? Two weeks out from released weights, but this is still just GLM 5.2 with p…

>> This is absolutely still shy of Sol and Fable, but only just by a hair. Ridiculous results.

Agreed.

This release is the first time I'm able to employ a GLM model to write a substantive plan for a complex Clojure PR [1] with both Opus 5 and GPT-5.x playing supporting / reviewer roles.

Initial results are __very__ encouraging. GLM 5.3 -

- follows directions,

- digs into detail, and

- correlates well.

Still not confident about entrusting GLM with implementation - but IMHO, western labs are entirely cooked.

[1] 2K LoC PR in a 55K LoC Clojure + Clojurescript repo

Re: GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities

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Vibes like your low quality comment? What’s the counter argument? pi and ohmypi are pretty fantastic. Of course like all developer tools it depends how you do your work but I am not sure what you are trying to achieve in your comment.

how would i comeup with counter argument if i dont know what original argument is. No one is disagreeing with your subjective experience, gp comment said 'better' without qualification.

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Re: GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities

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You should try a better harness. Try pi, or ohmypi if you want a good OOB experience

I’m in the Claude code harness for everything boat too. What are the alternatives?

It’s not just bloat at this point. I run oMLX and run models locally. using Claude code on the first message dumps 40k of tokens that my laptop takes 5 mins to compute.

I’ve stopped using it completely now.

Re: GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities

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This is going to be catastrophic. Whether AI works or is useful or not isn’t even the question anymore. It can fulfil every promise Sam Altman has been making and will still make no financial sense to justify these valuations.

I take it from [1] (transcript of recent DeepSeek CEO discussion with investors) that DeepSeek would disagree on the immediate catastrophic impact to the likes of OpenAI or Anthropic. The reason is even though technology parity mostly exists, only OpenAI, Anthropic et al have the inference capacity to gain market share and generate revenue. Chinese vendors don't have the chips needed to scale up inference and gain ma…

Export controls have highly motivated China to figure out how to make state of the art chips entirely in country.

It’ll certainly take years but I would not bet against China’s ability to manufacture something.

Re: GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities

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I bought $18 GLM official subscription yesterday (5.2, but new model version was already leaking on some docs), set it up with Claude Code harness... and I’ve bumped to $80 plan almost immediately. It’s the first model that agreed on a proper security research (red team scenario), executed it seamlessly, including 0-days in WP plugins, RCE, 6.8 kernel exploit adaptation, etc - while playing against another GLM agent…

You should try a better harness. Try pi, or ohmypi if you want a good OOB experience

You sound like I could afford that.

Re: GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities

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I bought $18 GLM official subscription yesterday (5.2, but new model version was already leaking on some docs), set it up with Claude Code harness... and I’ve bumped to $80 plan almost immediately. It’s the first model that agreed on a proper security research (red team scenario), executed it seamlessly, including 0-days in WP plugins, RCE, 6.8 kernel exploit adaptation, etc - while playing against another GLM agent…

At my work I have a $500 monthly AI budget. I have been using the $200 Claude subscription and most of my use is with Claude code. I think I'm going to switch to either kimi or glm and use the opencode harness. Both fable 5 and opus 5 have outright refused things like security related bug fixes and making monitoring tools. I am so happy that open models are good now

I generally use the $100-200 Codex/Claude subs, and have been blown away by the usage I get from OpenCode Go at $10/mo. At a minimum, excellent for automatically piping reviews to from Codex/Claude.

Re: GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities

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Apple will release M7 MacBook Pros / Mac Minis next year, and they will be able to run free LLMs locally at native speed. All software developer notebooks will be replaced to run local models, saving a lot by cancelling Claude Code subscriptions. Developers win. Apple stocks will be rocketing. Everything else will go down. You're welcome.

They will cost an insane amount as well. Maybe less than subscriptions or tokens. But running massive models on laptops with batteries and poor cooling doesn’t make much sense.

> will cost an insane amount as well

We will get to a point where prosumer laptops that etch SoTA LLMs in removable silicon will be as expensive as cars.

Re: GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities

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Sorry but if you stepped back for a moment you'd realize this is all contrived nonsense to let to have your cake and eat it too. No, Anthropic did not mind-game the US government into being worried about cybersecurity. The NSA has been paranoid about cyber controls for longer than you've been alive. If Anthropic had come out of the gate saying "no don't worry man, our model is TOTALLY COOL", while simultaneously atta…

Mythos isn't some scary dangerous model that can find high severity bugs seamlessly, that's just Anthropic marketing. Most of the vulnerabilities they found were low severity hyped up to make their model look good, with (I think, maybe?) the exception of a few. Now that Chinese open weight models have similar capabilities, and their guardrails can also just be removed, it doesn't look like anyone has "hacked" into ev…

If you think all of these models aren’t finding important bugs everywhere I think your not being honest with yourself.

In fact I think the opposite is true. The Zcash bug was found with opus 4.6 or something like that. Many worse models currently in the wild might be very capable but not yet industrialized for bug finding.

Another example from today. Cryptography system that’s been around for decades: https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/1630

It’s going to be a bumpy few months

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