Anthropic's Mythos adds to concerns about rising workloads for open-source maintainers, as many have already been dealing with a "crazy" number of bug reports (Chris Stokel-Walker/Bloomberg)
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AI that finds vulnerabilities faster than humans turns open source into a 24/7 incident queue — maintainers become the new bottleneck. If your stack leans on OSS, assume higher patch velocity and burnout risk at the edge of your supply chain and budget for support, forks, or commercial alternatives accordingly.
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