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• @radiantnous @radiantnous on x

  it's borderline fraudulent to claim that your AI agent has implemented a C compiler and does not mention that it **does not implement typechecking**. disappointed by anthropic here [image]

• @krishnanrohit Rohit on x

  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]

• @mitsuhiko Armin Ronacher on x

  I'm totally unsurprised at this point that it can write a 200.000 lines of code C compiler capable of compiling the Linux kernel in two weeks. Absolutely crazy times. The present is wild.

• @tenobrus @tenobrus on x

  2020: “sure it can generate some syntactically valid python snippets, but anything complex and it just falls apart. stochastic parrot.” 2026: “sure it can write a C compiler on its own, but it's not even as efficient as GCC and it doesn't have its own linker. stochastic parrot.” …

• @esrtweet Eric S. Raymond on x

  Comes the news that Anthropic has vibecoded an entire C compiler. It's an impressive stunt, but even as bullish as I am on AI-assisted coding I wouldn't want to use it for production. The reason is auditability. I don't actually know, not having seen the source code, but so

• @headinthebox Erik Meijer on x

  Required reading for all doubters that did not yet believe CS is dead.

• @chatgpt21 Chris on x

  Anthropic had 16 AI agents build a C compiler from scratch. 100k lines, compiles the Linux kernel, $20k, 2 weeks. To put that in perspective GCC took thousands of engineers over 37 years to build. (Granted from 1987 - however) One researcher and 16 AI agents just built a [video]

• @deryatr_ Derya Unutmaz on x

  You got to be kidding me! " tasked 16 agents with writing a Rust-based C compiler, from scratch, capable of compiling the Linux kernel. Over nearly 2,000 Claude Code sessions and $20,000 in API costs, the agent team produced a 100,000-line compiler that can build Linux 6.9 on

• @steveklabnik.com Steve Klabnik on bluesky

  “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/ ...

• r/programming r on reddit

  Building a C compiler with a team of parallel Claudes

• r/programare r on reddit

  Building a C compiler with a team of parallel Claudes

• r/theprimeagen r on reddit

  Anthropic built a C compiler with a “team of parallel agents”, has problems compiling hello world.

• r/accelerate r on reddit

  Anthropic: “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/singularity r on reddit

  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 r on reddit

  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/Compilers r on reddit

  How efficient is this supposed C compiler built using Opus?

• r/programming r on reddit

  Anthropic built a C compiler using a “team of parallel agents”, has problems compiling hello world.

• r/devsarg r on reddit

  Anthropic: Creando un compilador de C usando agentes Claude paralelos