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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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kace91 ◴[] No.45944510[source]
Does Anthropic currently have cybersec people able to provide a standard assessment of the kind the community expects?

This could be a corporate move as some people claim, but I wonder if the cause is simply that their talents are currently somewhere else and they don’t have the company structure in place to deliver properly in this matter.

(If that is the case they are not then free of blame, it’s just a different conversation)

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CuriouslyC ◴[] No.45944738[source]
I throw Anthropic under the bus a lot for their lack of engineering acumen. If they don't have a core competency like engineering fully covered, I'd say there's a near 0% chance they have something like security covered.
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fredoliveira ◴[] No.45944975[source]
What makes you think they lack engineering acumen?
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CuriouslyC ◴[] No.45944996[source]
The hot mess that is Claude Code (if you multi-orchestrate with it, it'll start to grind even very powerful systems to a halt, 15+ seconds of unresponsiveness, all because CC constantly serializes/deserializes a JSON data file that grows quite large every time you do stuff), their horrible service uptime compared to all their competitors, their month long performance degradation their users had to scream at them to get them to investigate, the fact that they had to outsource their web client and it's still bad, etc.
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1. weird-eye-issue ◴[] No.45946494[source]
> The hot mess that is Claude Code

And yet it's one of the fastest growing products of all time and is currently the state of the art for AI coding assistants. Yeah it's not perfect but nothing is

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2. thunderfork ◴[] No.45946853[source]
"I doubt they have good security chops because they make bad technical choices"

"What bad technical choices?"

"These ones"

"Ok but they're fast-growing, so..."

Does being a fast-growing product mean you have security chops or is this a total non-sequitur?

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3. CuriouslyC ◴[] No.45947490[source]
I give the model a lot of credit for being very good at a fairly narrow slice of work (basic vibe coding/office stuff) that also happens to be extremely common. I'm harder on Claude Code because of its success and the fact that the company that makes it is worth so much.
4. weird-eye-issue ◴[] No.45949956[source]
They brought up some performance related edge case that I've never even run into even with extremely heavy usage including building my own agent that wraps around CC and runs several sessions in parallel... So yeah I failed to see the relevance