alt Hacker NewsIt's really interesting how back then no one was considering these tools for coding at all. Today, the hype around Mythos is mostly around security vulnerabilities, while in the original GPT 2 post they don't mention coding once. The "danger" was probably spam content and mis-information.
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ffsm8 • today at 8:32 PM
The agentic loop wasn't really established back then either, as tool calling came much much later... So yeah, not just probably - rather most definitely.
a2128 • today at 9:04 PM
Yet it's 2026 and we see extreme examples of spam content and misinformation to the point that it's killing the internet, but AI companies have collectively decided to not care
Even if the ReAct paper was published in 2019, I don't think GPT-2 was robust enough to actually work with a tool-calling approach even when finetuned.
For regular coding, GPT-2 was effectively useless because it was only trained from links posted on Reddit.