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> Nicholas Carlini, a researcher at Anthropic, orchestrated 16 parallel Claude agents to write a production C compiler in Rust. To write a proof-of-concept C c

• fnordpiglet 5mo ago
  To be fair it was a totally unattended zero shot loop developed compiler - which is pretty remarkable no matter how you cut it. I’m surprised what made you quit reading wasn’t the Claude voice sneaking through their half success attempt voice clone.
• cardanome 5mo ago
  Yeah and > A C compiler written in Rust used to be a graduate thesis. It isn’t anymore. Or maybe like a little recreational project for multiple weekends. There is that weird myth that writing compilers is super hard. Writing a toy C compiler is not that big of a deal. It is a pretty simple language. Now production-grade is another beast but that is something AI can't do.