Reading up on Claude's C Compiler
2 deep · digging since feb 06
- We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler
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.