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846 Sixteen AI Agents Built a C Compiler From Scratch

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msmash @ Slashdot · 02/09/2026 15:00 EDT

Sixteen AI Agents Built a C Compiler From Scratch

Anthropic researcher Nicholas Carlini set 16 instances of Claude Opus 4.6 loose on a shared codebase over two weeks to build a C compiler from scratch, and the AI agents produced a 100,000-line Rust-based compiler capable of building a bootable Linux 6.9 kernel on x86, ARM and RISC-V architectures.

The project ran through nearly 2,000 Claude Code sessions and cost about $20,000 in API fees. Each instance operated inside its own Docker container, independently claiming tasks via lock files and pushing comp

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