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Anthropic’s paper smells like bullshit

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1160 points vxvxvx | 3 comments | 16 Nov 25 11:32 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source

Earlier thread: Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45918638 - Nov 2025 (281 comments)
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notpublic ◴[16 Nov 25 13:12 UTC] No.45944874[source]▶
"A report was recently published by an AI-research company called Anthropic. They are the ones who notably created Claude, an AI-assistant for coding. Personally, I don’t use it but that is besides the point."

Not sure if the author has tried any other AI-assistants for coding. People who haven't tried coding AI assistant underestimates its capabilities (though unfortunately, those who use them overestimate what they can do too). Having used Claude for some time, I find the report's assertions quite plausible.

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delusional ◴[16 Nov 25 13:45 UTC] No.45945111[source]▶
The article doesn't talk about the implausibility of the the tool to do the stated task. It talks the report, and how it doesn't have any details to make us believe the tool did the task. Maybe the thing they are describing could happen. That doesn't mean we have any evidence that it did.
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1. notpublic ◴[16 Nov 25 14:05 UTC] No.45945244[source]▶
If you know what to look for, the report actually has quite a few details on how they did it. In fact, when the report came out, all it did was confirm my suspicions.
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2. hrimfaxi ◴[16 Nov 25 14:27 UTC] No.45945373[source]▶
> If you know what to look for

Mind sharing?

3. qzzi ◴[16 Nov 25 22:41 UTC] No.45949135[source]▶
I've been hacking professionally for 30 years and I know what to look for. Anthropic's report is garbage. Period.