No Humans, Just 16 Claude AI Agents Built a Fully Functional C Compiler, Shocking Developers

AI agents built a fully functional C compiler in two weeks with zero human supervision, compiling Linux and shocking developers.
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Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 spends $20K trying to write a C compiler

AI agents build something that mostly works but worries the project's creator An Anthropic researcher's efforts to get its newly released Opus 4.6 model to build a C compiler left him "excited," ...
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Autonomous coding: A team of 16 Claude AI agents build a C compiler in Rust from scratch

Anthropic researcher Nicholas Carlini successfully used teams of Claude Opus 4.6 AI agents to build a massive C compiler in Rust without human guidance. The two-week experiment, costing $20,000, ...

How the GNU C Compiler became the Clippy of cryptography

Security devs forced to hide Boolean logic from overeager optimizer FOSDEM 2026 The creators of security software have ...
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Anthropic launches Cowork, a Claude Code-like for general computing

Anthropic’s agentic tool Claude Code has been an enormous hit with some software developers and hobbyists, and now the company is bringing that modality to more general office work with a new feature ...
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Do better coders swear more, or does C just do that to good programmers?

Ever find yourself staring at a tricky coding problem and thinking, “shit”? If those thoughts make their way into your code or the associated comments, you’re in good company. When undergraduate ...