alt Hacker NewsThere actually was an article like this from Anthropic the other day but instead of 5 minutes I think it was weeks and $20,000 worth of tokens. Don't have the link handy though.
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logicprog • yesterday at 11:51 PM
Except it was written in a completely different language (Rust), which would have necessitated a completely different architecture, and nobody has established any relationship either algorithmically or on any other level between that compiler and TCC.
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Sixteen Claude AI agents working together created a new C compiler - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/sixteen-claude-ai-agents-...
> The $20,000 experiment compiled a Linux kernel but needed deep human management.
We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler | Hacker News
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46903616