PLEASE DO NOT PANIC about the Mythos/METR graph that everyone is panicking about. Progress is being made but people are totally overreacting…

PLEASE DO NOT PANIC about the Mythos/METR graph that everyone is panicking about. Progress is being made but people are totally overreacting. Here’s some context that is being left out from nearly every comment on that graph. Hot take on METR’s new graph that so many people are flipping about today. • Claude Code is a real advance; Mythos probably builds on some of what is learned there. But… • If you read the graph carefully, it is about achieving 50% success. Not 100 or 99 or even 90. The key prob…

Source: Gary Marcus (X) | 2026-05-10