vijay mahnot

This is big... Anthropic just announced a model so powerful they won't release it to the public out of fear over the damage it will cause 😨 Claude Mythos Preview found thousands of zero-day exploits in every major operating system and web browser... The numbers are hard to believe: > $50 to find a 27-year-old bug in OpenBSD, one of the most security-hardened operating systems ever built > Under $1,000 to find AND build a fully working remote code execution exploit on FreeBSD that grants unauthenticated root access from anywhere on the internet > Under $2,000 to chain together multiple Linux kernel vulnerabilities into a complete privilege escalation exploit For context: these are the kinds of findings that previously required elite security researchers working for weeks. Anthropic engineers with no formal security training asked Mythos to find exploits overnight. They woke up to working code the next morning. The results were so impressive Anthropic assembled Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, NVIDIA, and seven other organizations into Project Glasswing: A $100M defensive coalition. They're not releasing this model publicly. Instead, they're racing to patch the world's infrastructure before models like this proliferate.

A lawyer in Patiala House told me something last month that I have not been able to stop thinking about. He said "I have appeared very frequently before 12 judges in the last few years. I know exactly how each of them thinks. That ability to read a judge and predict their actions took me 15 years to build. My junior will never have that luxury because judges transfer every 3 years now." The institutional knowledge of how a specific judge thinks, what arguments work in front of them, what irritates them, how they handle bail, how they approach interim relief, all of that used to live inside a lawyer's head. Built over decades of appearing in the same court. That knowledge was the moat. The reason a senior could charge Rs 5,00,000 for a bail hearing and a junior could not. Not because the senior knew more law. Because the senior knew the judge. Now two things are happening at the same time. First, judge transfers are faster than ever. A judge who used to sit in one court for 5 years now moves in 2 to 3. By the time a lawyer builds a profile of the judge in their head, the judge is gone. The institutional knowledge resets. Second, every order that judge passes is now on eCourts. Public. Free. Searchable. The knowledge that used to take 15 years to build by appearing before a judge 200 times is now available to anyone who can read 200 orders (not perfectly, there is more than is done and said in the court room that does not show up in orders). The problem was always that no human could read 200 orders in a useful timeframe. AI can read 200 orders in 4 minutes. A 2-year call lawyer with Claude Code and a folder full of a judge's orders can now build the same profile that a 15-year senior has in his head. Not a vague sense of "this judge is strict." A detailed analysis of how this judge reasons about specific issues. You can add their publicly available data to your analysis to understand how the think, act and reason. This does not replace the senior's courtroom presence. It does not replace oral advocacy. It does not replace the relationships built over years. But it eliminates the information asymmetry. The junior who walks into court knowing that this judge grants bail in 70% of DV cases where the victim has filed for divorce, that he always asks about community roots, that he rejected bail twice when the accused had a prior pending case, that junior is not guessing anymore. They are making the same informed decisions the senior makes. They just got there differently. Now here is where this becomes a business. There are roughly 700 district courts in India. Each has 10 to 50 judges. Each judge passes thousands of orders. This data refreshes constantly as judges transfer in and out. Nobody is building judge intelligence profiles systematically. The analytics tools that exist in the US (Lex Machina, Trellis) do not exist for Indian courts. Not because the data is not there. Because nobody has built it. The person who builds a judge intelligence service for Indian district courts will not need to sell to large law firms. They will sell to every litigation lawyer who walks into a courtroom they have never appeared in before. That is 14 lakh lawyers. Not 200 firms. At LawSikho we now teach lawyers to build these profiles for their own cases using Claude Code. Not as a product. As a personal tool. Put the judge's orders in a folder. Let Claude Code read them. Ask it questions. Correct its understanding. Then draft your arguments for that specific judge. The skill takes weeks to learn. The advantage it gives lasts a career. The senior in Patiala House was right. His junior will never have the luxury of 15 years in front of the same judge. But that junior might not need 15 years anymore.

There are a few founders whom I really admire the most, VSS is 1 of them & this is just a fan post. Not many people know this, but in the early days of One97, Vijay took a loan at an interest rate of around 25%. To a modern VC-funded founder, 25% is insanity. To Vijay, it was the Price of Sovereignty. He also took odd jobs just to pay off his company’s debts while running One97 at night. He was really a dual track founder: working a 9 to 5 to fund his own 5 to 9. In the Arthashastra, Chanakya places Varta (Agriculture, Cattle-rearing, & Trade) as the foundation of the state. For 200 yrs, the British Macauley education system forensically re-programmed Indians to be clerks (Babus). Vijay, coming from a small town (Aligarh) & a Hindi medium background broke the "English for Success" monopoly. VSS is the modern Sarthavaha (Caravan Leader): the 1 who takes the 1st risk so others can follow the trail.