Anthropic details how it used 16 parallel Claude Opus 4.6 agents to build a Rust-based 100,000-line C compiler, incurring ~$20K in API costs over 2,000 sessions
www.anthropic.com/engineering/ ...Forums:Hacker News:We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compilerr/singularity:We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C compiler. Then we (mostly) walked away. Two weeks later, it worked on the Linux kernel.r/ClaudeCode:We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C compiler. Then we (mostly) walked away. Two weeks later, it worked on the Linux kernel.Lobsters:Building a C compiler with a team of parallel Claudes
Very interesting blog and an insane result, and yet again shows the problems of multi-agent coordination. It remains the case that we have to handcraft roles, artisanal, and painfully figure out how they should work. We need a better way! cc @alexolegimas @AndreyFradkin [image]
“Over nearly 2,000 Claude Code sessions and $20,000 in API costs, the agent team produced a 100,000-line [C compiler written in #rustlang] that can build Linux 6.9 on x86, ARM, and RISC-V.” — www.anthropic.com/engineering/ ...