BofA hires 1,000 contractors to patch flaws exposed by Anthropic's Mythos agents
LazyPotatoHead97 · reddit · 2026-10-22
The post claims Bank of America hired 1,000 contractors to patch software flaws exposed by Anthropic's Mythos (AI agent vulnerability hunting). The author argues this is a wake-up call for big financial institutions still running legacy systems: swarms of AI agents will increasingly test and exploit ancient codebases, forcing slow-moving large companies to adapt or die, with 2027 framed as the takeoff year.
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