Over two weeks and nearly 2,000 Claude Code sessions costing about $20,000 in API fees, the AI model agents reportedly produced a 100,000-line Rust-based compiler capable of building a bootable Linux ...

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, ...