the mythos mythos

 Following up on the "Mythos Tracking" -- 

I know there's some sentiment that like, announcing "maybe THIS level of our exclusive new AI is just TOO POWERFUL for the world" is kind of an old ploy already - and as Fireship (one of the more enjoyable ways of absorbing tech news) points out, some of the metrics and test cases... even if Mythos is quantitatively better it's not clear how big of a qualitative change it is.

But, this paper has a lot of big names attached - The “AI Vulnerability Storm”: Building a “Mythosready” Security Program - and it does make the case for how the security landscape is changing.

js 2026

Even if you're all hot and bothered to hop onto the "vibe coding maestro" train, it's good to have some idea of what's going on in Javascript in 2026.

I wonder if browsers will ever start doing Typescript natively. There's such a beauty in buildless systems, and browsers have been so good at backwards compatibility and keeping things evergreen.

rise of the gray hat bots

Ah my goodness. News of Anthropic's "Mythos" is making the rounds, finding crazy security exploits - and honestly seeming to pick some of the playful jocularity of a troll hacker. 

I guess we don't realize how much of LLM's helpfulness and good spirit comes from being trained on online technical resources with that point of view - maybe in a more-than-poetic way, LLM reflects the community spirit of OSS. But if you change that vibe at a fundamental level - you have a formidable tool. And maybe the best we can do is make sure our "gray hot" bots help us shore up our defenses before the black hats get a hold of it.  

will Web 4.0 be more like Web 1.0

Interesting article about how (especially agentic) AI Might Be Our Best Shot At Taking Back The Open Web.

There's a straight shot for me from "slapping up webpages via my university ~/public_html directory" to "put up CGI on cheap shared webservers" to "running whatever I want on a rented VPS". Actually I still think buildless/evergreen on my VPS is my secret sauce, where I'm able to put up a new service or webapp without putting down a credit card of starting a new business relationship, and AI (agentic and chatbot) plays REALLY well with that. Sky's the limit and with my Porchfest sites I've seen how simple, almost under-engineered things can scale to accommodate even super-spiky traffic days. (Which makes my disenchantment with how complexity has grown in the Enterprise even stronger.)

So my question is, what would the Geocities of this current era be? Obviously it's much much more fraught to offer space where web apps can run, but still, while I get how empowering agentic can be for people who can clearly describe what they want but have never learned to put that in deterministic coding, WHERE they put things (besides running it locally, or maybe using some cheap freebie hosting) seems like an interesting question.