[cataflam]

> 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 compiler, not a production-grade one...

Hard to take the article seriously after this

[fnordpiglet]

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]

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.