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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 ...
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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.
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 ...
AI agents built a fully functional C compiler in two weeks with zero human supervision, compiling Linux and shocking developers.
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