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Swift Creator Chris Lattner Reviews Claude's C Compiler: 'Like a Strong Undergrad Team's Work — Remarkable, but Far from Production'
Chris Lattner reviewed the Claude C Compiler built by 16 parallel Claude Opus agents. His verdict: AI can assemble serious engineering systems, but it mostly recombines known knowledge. His Modular team expectations read like an AI coding strategy guide.
Anthropic Sent 16 Claudes to Build a C Compiler — And It Can Compile the Linux Kernel
Anthropic researcher Nicholas Carlini ran 16 Opus 4.6 agents in parallel for two weeks, spending $20,000 in API costs, to build a 100,000-line Rust C compiler from scratch. It can compile the Linux kernel, QEMU, FFmpeg, Redis — and yes, it runs Doom. This is the ultimate stress test for agent teams.