It's OVER: Claude Mythos is COMING (INSANE)
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Discussion of uncertain release dates for Polymarket and how insiders shape expectations, with skepticism about the information highway surrounding AI launches.
Claude Mythos hype is sky-high, but the creator argues you already have powerful tools and should ship, not just wait for the next release.
Summary
Income stream surfers’ host breaks down the Mythos hype cycle around Claude and the Poisson-like swing of release rumors. He critiques Polymarket as a guessing game fueled by insiders and emphasizes that real progress comes from learning and building with current tools like Claude Code, Opus 4.x, and GPT-5.5. The video highlights Harbor and a live example where Claude Code controls forms and site logic on a WordPress project, underscoring that practical capability is already here. He compares the “AI bubble” to hype campaigns and argues that the next model, Mythos, may not necessarily be game-changing enough to justify widespread job losses. Throughout, he stresses self-education over waiting for release headlines and shares practical tips on collaborating with a partner using Git workflows. He closes by promoting his own service offering website development and ongoing SEO/tech support, framing it as a way to monetize current AI productivity rather than chasing hype. The overarching message: build now, learn deeply, and avoid being overwhelmed by the mythos of constant iteration.
Key Takeaways
- Polymarket-driven rumors about Claude Mythos dominated early chatter, but the creator notes the price swings and hype don’t guarantee release timing.
- Claude Mythos is positioned as an upgrade, but the creator believes current tools (Claude Code, Opus 4.x, GPT-5.5) already enable substantial capabilities.
- Harbor and other projects were built with Claude code work and Opus 4.x, illustrating practical, real-time AI-assisted development without waiting for Mythos.
- The speaker warns of an AI hype bubble and suggests that progress is more about learning and applying existing tech than chasing the next model release.
Who Is This For?
Essential viewing for developers and entrepreneurs who want to separate hype from practical AI productivity. If you’re building AI-powered apps today, this video helps you focus on learning and shipping rather than chasing every new model.
Notable Quotes
"Okay, so basically, people watch inside traders. So, likely what happened was June the 9th, 9:00 a.m., something happened to lead to a huge boost in people were saying that it's going to be released today."
—Describes the perceived linkage between insider chatter and hype around release timing.
"This is insane, the hype is getting absurd right now on X, etc."
—Calls out social media hype as a driver of perception around Mythos.
"I've already have all of the tools I need to build whatever the hell I want, right?"
—Emphasizes readiness with current toolchain over waiting for Mythos.
"You can literally build anything now, right? You can build an agent that has access to video, image, text, code, cloud code."
—Illustrates breadth of capabilities available today without Mythos.
"Stay clear of the hype. Things are going crazy right now."
—Rings warning bell about AI market overreaction.
Questions This Video Answers
- How close is Claude Mythos to release and what upgrades does it promise compared to Claude 4.8?
- What are Claude Code and Opus 4.x, and how do they enable building projects like Harbor today?
- Why is Polymarket highlighted as a source of release timing rumors for AI models?
- What practical steps can I take now to ship AI-powered projects without waiting for Mythos?
- How can I use Git workflows to collaborate effectively on AI-enabled codebases?
Claude MythosPolymarketClaude CodeOpus 4.6-4.8HarborAI hype bubbleGPT-5.5Git workflowWordPress automationClaude code work
Full Transcript
Okay, guys. It's my turn to contribute to the new cycle. Apparently, we are getting Claude Mythos either today, tomorrow, this week. This is general consensus at this point. Most people are agreeing that it's going to be today or tomorrow. So, yeah, it seems like there's a lot of um Polymarket, it looked like it was going to come today on Polymarket. I think this is how most people make their decisions these days. Just as I start recording the video, obviously, there's been a huge drop. So, it looks like it's actually not getting released today, which is hilarious.
Um Yeah, people are saying it's June 10th now instead of June 9th. Just so you know, I don't recommend Polymarket at all, but like Uh the way it works is people this this is so bad, honestly, that this is even a even a thing. I don't know what's wrong with our society, etc. But basically, people watch inside traders. So, likely what happened was June the 9th, 9:00 a.m., something happened to lead to a huge boost in people were saying that it's going to be released today, right? That kind of studied out, people weren't sure, blah blah blah.
It didn't it never really got to 100% and then bang, it's just dropped here. So, and it's literally 2:00 p.m., which if you didn't know, I guess New York time it it's probably No, that's not No, I don't know. It's probably about time that New Yorkers are waking up, right? So, yeah, it's 9:00 a.m. in New York. So, people have obviously just arrived at work and been told that it's not being released today. So, all the inside traders uh are selling June 9th and and buying June 10th. Uh so, yeah, I don't know what I I can't believe this is even a thing.
Honestly. But, yeah, this is how I read it. Inside it's all just inside trading it's trading it's people who work at these companies it's people in the know just making billions and billions and billions of dollars. People are just tracking inside traders. But, basically, Polymarket is a pretty good way of knowing what is coming during the day. I'm telling you this is how 99% of people are getting their information right now because there is a vested interest. It's like the news, but the vested interest comes from the people who are actually able to buy shares, which is completely messed up.
Now that I'm starting to understand it even more as I'm explaining this, I'm thinking, "Oh my god, what have we done?" But anyway, let's talk about this. The leaks are pretty crazy. Obviously, Mythos, Mythos, Mythos, everyone's talking Mythos. It's probably one of the best hype campaigns I've ever seen in my entire life. I have not made a single video about Mythos, so if you comment saying like, "Oh, FU for hyping blah blah blah." because I am going to use a pretty clickbait title and thumbnail for this video. You know, honestly, I haven't made a single video about Mythos, so I am allowed to make one video the day before launch.
It is an insanely good hype campaign by Claude. The way that they released it, and then said it was too dangerous, not released it, they released it to some people, and then they gave it to big tech, right? Big tech, by the way, which all have a vested interest in hyping up Mythos, right? Because there is an AI bubble. I can't believe the way the world is going right now. Let me just say something from my perspective, okay? Yes, I am excited about Mythos. It's not like I'm going to sit here and say, you know, Mythos is not going to be good, I'm not hyped about it, etc.
etc. But I will tell you right now, I already have all of the tools I need to build whatever the hell I want, right? Literally just with Codex with GPT-5.5, Lord code uh with Opus 4.8, right? Yes, okay, cool. The things that are coming, the later models, they're all going to make it easier for me to build. They're going to make less mistakes, they're going to do this, they're going to do that. I already have everything I need to build literally anything I want. Okay, so let me just show you an example, guys. Okay, this weekend we built this entire system into ballandairy park.com, right?
And basically what we did was we created this system where you can kind of like organize your hen or stag do with on the property, right? You can, you know, add things, you can pay for things that you want to do. And then literally at the same time while I was building that this weekend, I was also building this entire website or like finishing this website off, right? Which is a WordPress website. I was using Claude code work to control gravity forms and the theme and all that good stuff. So I didn't have to touch anything there either.
I'm still building Harbor, but like this is like, you know, as advanced as it gets in terms of projects. Like there are some insane things inside Harbor. Um all of this was just built with Claude code and Opus 4.6 or 4.7 or 4.8. My point here is that everyone is always waiting for the next model and you kind of have to because of the AI bubble, right? As soon as people realize that they've already got the tools that they need to build everything they need and it's not just about the next release. I've been trying to explain this for so long.
It's about your knowledge and your understanding. It's not about the next release, all right? All of these people, they're hyping you up because, you know, they've got something to sell. The more eyes on it, Claude 5 Mythos videos today going to go hard or tomorrow, whatever. I never make videos before model release, by the way. I I generally just wait until the model has been released. I just wanted to make this video because like you've already got everything you need. You don't need to keep waiting for the next model to pump up the IPO of Anthropic and save the AI bubble because, you know, it's going to be this AGI thing that's just going to, you know, whatever.
We've already got it, right? Everything already exists. You can already build everything with what we've got. Now, I will say obviously I understand that mythos is going to be like an upgrade on what we've currently got and obviously 4.8 in my opinion although 4.8 gets a lot of is like a thousand billion times better than like Sonic 3.5 and then is mythos going to be a thousand billion times better than 4.8? I don't know, maybe. And if so guys honestly I don't think that's a good thing because this will take so many people's jobs if it's if it's as much of a gap between 3.5 and 4.8 as 4.8 and mythos.
All that's going to happen is people are going to lose their jobs because it's just going to start doing everything for everyone. You can literally build anything now, right? You can build an agent that has access to video, image, uh text, code, uh cloud code like it can literally use cloud code inside manager agents which is just completely insane. And you know all of this stuff yeah does 3D, game, blender. I don't There's literally no limit what it can literally just do everything, right? So eventually if it gets to be you know as much of a gap between these two as these two, we're going to have serious issues with like they just It's going to just take everyone's job literally.
Like I'm I don't even know if this is a good thing guys. What I will say guys is you can build everything you want in your head today already. You shouldn't just be waiting for the next hype release from these models from these companies because you can already do it. Just go and build like go and learn systems. I've learned so much in the last even three months. Even like three months ago basically there's like this age-old problem of how do you Let's say this is uh GitHub dev, right? Dev branch, dev branch. How do you both work on the same code at the same time?
Like I have my business partner who is working on code, I'm working on code. I add code here, he adds code there. How do we then merge that together into main? Even 2 months ago, I wouldn't have known how to do this, right? But now it's easy, and it's not because Mythos has changed everything, it's because I just learned. Right? I just learned. I I can get him to do a pull request. I can have into my dev locally. And then I can merge that dev so our devs, our combined devs, into main in 5 minutes.
I don't need Mythos, right? I just need to sit and learn, understand these things, build, build, build, build, build until you understand things. Build with teams, learn things, study things. It's not about waiting for Mythos to be more intelligent than you. It's about continuing to increase your intelligence and what you know using better models, right? So yeah, I just wanted to talk about this guys because the the hype is getting absurd right now on X, etc. And there's been another spike, so we don't know what's going to happen today, honestly. Everyone is just going completely crazy, I don't know.
I already said that this guy here is like infamous on X. I don't know how many people use X, but um yeah, I just don't know what to believe anymore. I don't know what is going on. Um people just hyping, hyping, hyping. Guys, I don't know what to believe. I don't know what to think, but like you can build something as good as Harbor, right? Today, people love Harbor. I get I only get good feedback about Harbor. I have my own system for dealing with bugs, like people can put a bug here. I can connect that to Claude code.
So literally the second, the millisecond that something comes in, I just Claude code it. I say check the the latest feedback. I get the feedback, I fix it. I'm already inside the code. The way this works guys, and I really recommend learning this is I'm using the Claude terminal Sorry, the Claude code app. On the side, I have all the projects I'm currently working on. If I need to jump into Harbor, all I do is just click on Harbor, and then I do something. I had a complaint that the uh stock images that were being generated by AI were too kind of um generic and samey-same.
So, you know, I took that. I said, "Can you fix this?" We talked about it. We fixed it, literally, right? That's all I'm doing. And yeah, I fixed that bug, got it into live Harbor, went to bed, no more feedback, right? So, guys, this is how you run things. This is how you make sure that you're already building. You don't need me, folks. I'm telling you. Just before I end the video, guys, quick shout-out from my sponsor, me. This is my website, incomesharingstarter.com. I've basically been working on an offer recently for people. So, I will run your website for you personally with Claude code, whether it be WordPress, Shopify, custom, whatever you need.
Basically, the way it works is I do like one of these. I connect it to either Claude Claude code work or Claude code, right? And then from there, I just run the website. I'll be adding content every month, checking how you're ranking on search console, all that good stuff, using my Claude code setup. So, you just press build your plan right here. If you need me to build something for you, these are the prices. $2,500, $2,500. Dollars. Let's say you do want a website, um and then you want to work with me as well. So, 500 bucks a month, you get me as your personal SEO and tech partner.
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With that being said, guys, try to stay clear of the hype. Things are going crazy right now. It's all just about kind of making AI seem like there's somewhere else for it to go. There is, of course, I get that. It's not going to be replacing people at the current prices, though, cuz it's way too expensive. Mythos will be stupid expensive, too. With all that being said, thank you so much for watching. If you are watching all the way to the end of the video, you're an absolute legend. Go and check out my website and the offer that I've built.
Thanks so much for watching, and peace out. I'll see you very, very soon with some more content. Peace out. Almost forgot.
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