Sixteen Claude AI agents working together created a new C compiler
The $20,000 experiment compiled a Linux kernel but needed deep human management.
In a $20,000 experiment, 16 instances of Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 AI model collaborated to create a 100,000-line Rust-based C compiler capable of compiling a Linux kernel. The project, while successful, required significant human management and revealed limitations in the AI's coding abilities, such as inefficient code production and unresolved bugs.
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