27B Model Can Beat Larger Models at Cyber, Hard Part Is Real Understanding
gnukeith · x · 2026-11-11
The author argues a 27B model can become better than Fable/Mythos at cybersecurity — though "not actually very easily, like medium rare hard."
The hard part is getting the model to understand why it is good at it: real understanding versus pattern recognition. He likens it to being told 100 times that 10+10=20 — do you understand why, or have you just memorized it? That is the difference between real intelligence and a parrot.
In a reply he lays out the roadmap: alignment model, actual model, decision model, then sub-9B models highly specialized for use cases you wouldn't even have thought of.
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