Apparently I can pay for partial solutions to the Riemann hypothesis but if my question involves a crackme or something that is an existential risk somehow.
OTOH, this is the cudgel that incumbents will use to get the government to protect them from open weight models.
It would fix it for me, automatically, if I was willing to let it run amok in my codebase. But asking if the "vuln" was exploitable triggered the guardrails and a "we can't show you this content" error because I am not part of the cybersecurty Trusted Access bullshit.
Outstanding technology, truly amazing what man has managed to create.
If any of the above are more convenient than paying an engineer you aren’t any safer, the enterprise paying is just putting money in someone else’s pocket.
Based on the damage done in some sectors, it would be interesting to see an alternative history where software required licenses and degrees. Certainly, the larger tech ecosystem would have moved more slowly, and products more expensive.
While EE are basically held accountable by their employers, and the physics of it all requiring that things work correctly, software developers don't have the same kind of feedback loop. Thus any country that did not play into that system would compete on features over quality. I don't think that would have lasted. Same issue with "pausing" AI development in one country.
Licensed engineers are technically held accountable by their peers. The definition of a profession (versus just a job) is that professionals as a group are self-regulating. That is why e.g. doctors can be disciplined by their College, and lawyers can be disbarred by the legal society.
This is because Professional Engineering is actually a social process, not really a technical one. The work is technical, sure, but the reason we have Professional Engineers is because society realized long ago that letting any idiot build e.g. a bridge for public traffic is a bad idea.
Society, via legislation, grants professional licensing bodies special privileges in return for exerting control over the practising members of that profession.
The reason you don't see as many EEs (or aerospace) engineers with PEs is because the products that get produced in those specialties get certified in different ways. There's no bridge equivalent to the FCC, for example.
Doctors protect doctor's interests. Lawyers aren't idiots, they're professionals who run businesses with the express intent to make money.
Software engineers seem to be just bright enough to make money, and just stupid enough to say, no no, please I'd prefer to be homeless, please take my job and automate me, offshore me, and devalue my salary out of existence all at once.
And this is generally a bad thing, to be clear. It often comes in the form of rent seeking which should be fought tooth and nail by the rest of society.
From my perspective what I always loved about "the profession" was a relative LACK of gatekeeping. I loved offensive security for the same reason, there was a long run where you really just needed to be able to hack, and if you could demonstrate that there was a job for you somewhere (for better or worse).
Keeping the industry in its current form frozen in amber would be as weird as, I don't know, keeping horses & carriages in business by regulating scarcity of motor vehicle licenses. Not a great analogy but hopefully you see what I mean.
This will limit ability to scale or share the model.
Also, if I did have access, I'd use it to jailbreak my iPad, which is probably considered an unauthorized / unsafe use.
[0] Some guy in Australia's OpenClaw just hacked their gym
Whoa, you weren't kidding.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/10/tech-industry-is-buzzing-a...
Edit: looks like it happened a few months ago:
> The OpenClaw owner, Andrew Bird, published a now-deleted blog post about it on his company’s website on April 10, according to a copy still visible on the Internet Archive.
I understand that “normal” people are let’s say “less concerned” about posting everything on something like Facebook but I expect more from OPSec people.
> POST /backend-api/compliance/cyber_verification/persona/inquiries
> 403 cyber_verification_precheck_failed
All I did was open and close the Persona tab.
Even Anthropic accepted me into their cyber program.