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no, it's not. it's a tool in a zero sum game. a competitive imbalance. an exclusive moat. it's not improving anything, it's shifting power.

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As long as it shifts the zero-sum game in the favor of the defender, it is improving things.

In a technical sense, I assume the defender means cybersecurity companies, open source developers, etc?

In a physical sense, Anthropic is giving access to who we believe are the "defenders", aka the United States DoD and Israel.

I disagree. Assuming code complexity is roughly fixed, more sophisticated code analysis will result in a smaller surface area for bugs. Bugs will still be found, but there will be less bugs to be found and less opportunities to exploit.

I'd expect the bigger shift to be toward secure-by-construction building blocks: less custom code that needs to be audited from scratch, and more hardened or verified components where common bug classes are already designed out.

A similar concept is used in Rust, where code that needs unsafe sections is generally done in very isolated and very heavily scrutinized modules.

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