Comment by VadimPR

I'm not one to believe the Silicon Valley hype usually (GPT-2 being too dangerous to release, AI giving us UBI, and so on), but having run Claude Opus 4.6 against my codebase (a MUD client) over the weekend, I can believe this assessment.

Opus alone did a good job of identifying security issues in my software, as it did with Firefox [1] and Linux [2]. A next-generation frontier model being able to find even more issues sounds believable.

That said, this is script kiddies vs sql injections all over again. Everyone will need to get their basic security up on the new level and it will become the new normal. And, given how intelligence agencies are sitting on a ton of zero-days already, this will actually help the general public by levelling out the playing field once again.

1 - https://www.anthropic.com/news/mozilla-firefox-security 2 - https://neuronad.com/ai-news/claude-code-unearthed-a-23-year...