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  • Neither is any LLM, nor any mainstream agent I know of. You CAN use them that way IF the model doesn’t trip a safety guard, but it’s gonna take a bunch of prompt engineering to get most of them to do anything illegal. I could barely get Deepseek to reverse-engineer offline software by asking for it.

    Anthropic famously has a separate model for cybersecurity analysis because they won’t let you do shit on even your own infra with the publicly available Fable. You’ll have a hard time even analyzing your own source code for security vulnerabilities with Fable for that reason, though Opus might work.


  • I seriously doubt any of these agents are actually hacking websites from a “I need XYZ information” prompt. Claude triggered the ol’ “need to downgrade to Opus for safety” on me when I wasn’t even asking it to investigate anything security related, just help track down a few bugs.

    The whole “our agent went rogue” thing is almost certainly marketing. They WANT you to think it’s dangerous, they’ve been saying it since like GPT 2 which couldn’t produce a paragraph of coherent text. They WANT to be regulated because that makes it harder for smaller players to compete. Because right now z.ai’s GLM 5.3 Flash is about as good as Claude was a few months ago and it costs pennies in comparison (possibly subsidised by China - who knows).







  • Those are the models. An agent is a harness around the model.

    So if this goes through I could use opencode with GPT and… Which one is at fault, Opencode or OpenAI? What if I also modify Opencode’s system prompt as a joke to make it as unhelpful as possible and forget I did it, am I at fault or is it still Altman who goes to jail if I now let it delete my production database?

    As I understand it, it’s the person running it, so if you let an agent fuck something up, YOU are at fault, not the developer of the model or the tool. You’re the one who gave the task. You have the ability to block harmful commands if you don’t go yolo mode and actually read what it’s doing.