I pulled out a quote below from the anthropic piece relating to how to get better at security bug finding using frontier models and where to start. Ignoring what’s possible isn’t going to be a good strategy.

It’s not clear to me whether the llm is good at finding certain classes of bugs (eg Memory corruption in c) or if we’re looking at a more general purpose bug finder …

Gaining practice with using language models for bugfinding is worthwhile, whether it’s with Opus 4.6 or another frontier model. We believe that language models will be an important defensive tool, and that Mythos Preview shows the value of understanding how to use them effectively for cyber defense is only going to increase—markedly.

Think beyond vulnerability finding. Frontier models can also accelerate defensive work in many other ways. For example, they can:

  • Provide a first-round triage to evaluate the correctness and severity of bug reports;
  • De-duplicate bug reports and otherwise help with the triage processes;
  • Assist in writing reproduction steps for vulnerability reports;
  • Write initial patch proposals for bug reports;
  • Analyze cloud environments for misconfigurations;
  • Aid engineers in reviewing pull requests for security bugs;
  • Accelerate migrations from legacy systems to more secure ones;