Sixteen Claude AI agents working together created a new C compiler

Over two weeks and nearly 2,000 Claude Code sessions costing about $20,000 in API fees, the AI model agents reportedly ...
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OK, so Anthropic's AI built a C compiler. That don't impress me much

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.
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Current Limit of AI Automous Coding is a 100,00 Rust Based C Compiler Built in 2 Weeks

Anthropic researcher Nicholas Carlini published a blog post describing how he set 16 instances of the company’s Claude Opus 4.6 AI model loose on a shared ...

Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 spends $20K trying to write a C compiler

AI agents build something that mostly works but worries the project's creator An Anthropic researcher's efforts to get its newly released Opus 4.6 model to build a C compiler left him "excited," ...

How the GNU C Compiler became the Clippy of cryptography

Security devs forced to hide Boolean logic from overeager optimizer FOSDEM 2026 The creators of security software have ...