Anthropic's 16 Agents Built a C Compiler, but the App Still Runs Electron
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3. Anthropic Built a C Compiler with 16 AI Agents. Its Desktop App Still Runs on Electron. Sixteen copies of Claude Opus 4.6, working in parallel across nearly 2,000 sessions, produced a 100,000-line C compiler from scratch. The compiler targets x86, ARM, and RISC-V.
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