Fanboys think it's the greatest thing since sliced bread. Devs aren't nearly as won over Opinion I'm willing to be impressed by AI products, but Anthropic's AI‑built C compiler leaves me a bit cold.

Anthropic, an AI startup, recently launched its Claude Opus 4.6 model that can independently construct a C compiler, showcasing the power of collaborative AI agents.

Over two weeks and nearly 2,000 Claude Code sessions costing about $20,000 in API fees, the AI model agents reportedly produced a 100,000-line Rust-based compiler capable of building a bootable Linux ...

At the core of the project was Claude Opus 4.6, which introduces a new “agent teams” capability. Instead of relying on a ...

Sixteen autonomous AI agents collaborated to independently build a full C compiler, showcasing unprecedented progress in machine-driven software engineering.

Anthropic researcher Nicholas Carlini successfully used teams of Claude Opus 4.6 AI agents to build a massive C compiler in Rust without human guidance. The two-week experiment, costing $20,000, ...

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