GPT-5.4-Cyber: Not an Answer to Claude Mythos, But a Parallel Move Toward Recursion
The news spread widely in narrow circles: "OpenAI responded to Anthropic's Claude Mythos with its GPT-5.4-Cyber model." And everyone joyfully writes about competition, about the race, about who surpassed whom. In my view, this is only part of the truth. Half-truth. The difference between the announcements is one week. One week, Karl! Such models are not made in a week. This is not a "response." This is parallel movement. Both companies are moving in the same direction. And that direction is called recursion — when a program begins to improve its own code. Cybersecurity in this process is merely a byproduct. Of course, they package it in beautiful words about protection, about safety, about "helping white hat hackers." But that is not the point. The point is that AI has already reached the point where it can autonomously dig through code, finding holes in the cognitive dissonance of its own developers. Plus, the question...