Fanboys think it's the greatest thing since sliced bread. Devs aren't nearly as won over Opinion I'm willing to be impressed by AI products, but Anthropic's AI‑built C compiler leaves me a bit cold.

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," ...

Cursor had said last month that it had managed to build a web browser autonomously with AI agents alone. Anthropic seems to ...

Sixteen autonomous AI agents collaborated to independently build a full C compiler, showcasing unprecedented progress in machine-driven software engineering.

AI agents built a fully functional C compiler in two weeks with zero human supervision, compiling Linux and shocking developers.

At the core of the project was Claude Opus 4.6, which introduces a new “agent teams” capability. Instead of relying on a ...

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, ...