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The Frontier Isn’t the Model: Why ‘Good Enough’ Reasoning + Scaffolding Is More Important

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Xint researchers argue vulnerability discovery owes less to frontier models than to scaffolding, comparing Mythos’s disclosed results with broadly available models and how to pick a model per task.
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