access inequality

Claude Mythos leaked this week. Anthropic confirmed it's real, described it as a 'step change,' and said it's currently being tested with a small group of early access customers. That group isn't me. It probably isn't you either. This is new. A year ago, every model Anthropic shipped was effectively available to everyone with an API key on release day. The delta between what a funded enterprise customer could access and what a solo bootstrapped builder could access was close to zero. Mythos changes that. The most capable model ever built is being distributed on an invitation basis, tiered by relationship and use case, with general availability deferred while the cybersecurity implications get worked through. I don't think this is wrong. A model that can find and exploit software vulnerabilities faster than human defenders probably shouldn't be available to everyone immediately. The deliberate rollout makes sense. But I want to name what it means for the builder layer: the gap between what well-resourced teams can build and what solo founders can build just got wider, not because of money, but because of access. The most powerful reasoning and coding capabilities are going to the companies already in the room. The rest of us build with last quarter's model. One more thing: Anthropic left the announcement of a model with unprecedented cybersecurity capabilities in an unsecured, publicly searchable data store. The irony needs no elaboration.