We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler

kept by eddie feb 08

Anthropic's Opus 4.5 agent teams built a 100k-line C compiler from scratch for $20k that compiles Linux 6.9 on three architectures, but produces code worse than GCC -O0.

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Anthropic researcher Nicholas Carlini had a team of 16 autonomous Claude Code agents produce a 100,000-line Rust-based C compiler capable of compiling Linux 6.9 across three architectures for ~$20,000 in API costs.
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Show HN: Timber – Ollama for classical ML models, 336x faster than Python
Timber compiles classical ML models into self-contained C99 artifacts, enabling 2 µs inference that is approximately 336× faster than Python.
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Agents are not thinking, they are searching
AI agents are not thinking but searching through trajectories toward reward signals; environment and context window bound the search space.
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The Linux Kernel Will Soon Be MIT-Licensed and Copyleft Will Be Dead Within 5 Years - LowEndBox
AI-assisted reimplementation of GPL-licensed software will erode copyleft, with the Linux kernel potentially relicensed under MIT within five years.
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