@emollick my somewhat intermediate take; also re your second paragraph I don’t think we actually know how much bug-detecting-specific harnessing there is. so i am not sure your second sentence will stand the test of time. some data i saw briefly suggest otherwise, but we will have to see.
My view on Mythos was and is somewhere in between. It’s real, it’s a wakeup call, and it’s not quite what some of the media coverage suggested. • Mythos is not going to allow an 8 year old to accidentally take down a power grid. (Someone writing for the NYT thought that was a real possibility). • The new Mozilla data certainly show that Mythos is better then its predecessors at detecting bugs. • But the UK AI institute’s study showed (and I still think this is true) that well-secured systems are not immediately at risk. • Consistent with all this the Mozilla report notes “Note that a number of these bugs are sandbox escapes, which would need to be combined with other exploits to achieve a full-chain Firefox compromise” I stand by my middle view; it’s not marketing hype, but it’s not quite as potent as some people thought. One other thing to note is that whatever advances there are not necessarily general to many or all domains; we will have to wait and see on that.