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text (845): Anthropic had 16 AI agents build a C compiler from scratch. 100k lines, compiles the Linux kernel, $20k, 2 weeks.
To put that in perspective GCC took thousands of engineers over 37 years to build. (Granted from 1987 - however) One researcher and 16 AI agents just built a compiler that passes 99% of GCC's own torture test suite, compiles FFmpeg, Redis, PostgreSQL, QEMU and runs Doom.
They say they "(mostly) walked away." But that "mostly" is doing heavy lifting.
No human wrote code but the researcher constantly redesigned tests, built CI pipelines when agents broke each other's work, and created workarounds when all 16 agents got stuck on the same bug.
The human role didn't disappear. It shifted from writing code to engineering the environment that lets AI write code.
I dont know how you could make the point AI is hitting a wall. media (169): 99dd603606bf370700c86e15830230be96dc2b92c45b13a49bf848ca38234a7d time (10): 1770378883 time orig (10): 1770320465 id (19): 2019741541955170790 id orig (19): 2019496520425292220 uid (27): 1464280101638799360 akrmn21 uid orig (29): 1613004034096381952 chatgpt21
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