It is quantitatively better at finding and exploiting vulnerabilities. Pretty wild that everyone here is just in denial about that, when folks who have used it say it's as good as the hype
Cf wrote a genuinely good piece and had found a bunch of bugs: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cyber-frontier-models/
Wolfssl is security focused and it found a novel exploit https://www.wolfssl.com/how-claude-mythos-preview-helped-har...
You can pretend that it's all smoke and mirrors, but that just doesn't match up with reality: https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/blog/2026/05/defenders-guid...