In one of Anthropic's blog post, they describe that that's basically what they did too. They run the agent many times, each time specifying a different file to focus on. [1]
From my experience as a security researcher, manually finding a fishy file and sicking even sonnet 4.5 yields great results for most memory corruption bugs.
No comments otherwise. I don't have a clue as to who that guy is, and I haven't watched the video yet. You might be right overall.
[1] https://red.anthropic.com/2026/mythos-preview/
Edit: looked at the open source model claims - I agree that they suck. Basically all the details are given away in the prompt - not just the file.