Are models great at cybersecurity because they're 200IQ or exhaustive crackers?
chrisalbon · x · 2026-08-20
Chris Albon raises an interesting question: are recent models good at cybersecurity because they are genuinely brilliant (200IQ), or because they can exhaustively explore every possible crack in a system until they find one? The distinction matters for understanding where LLM capability in offensive security actually comes from.
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