AI Compiler Experiment Costs $20K, Yields Mixed Results
A researcher at Anthropic spent $20,000 on a project to write a C compiler using its AI model Opus 4.6. After nearly 2,000 sessions and 100,000 lines of code, the result was a working C compiler that can build Linux kernel versions for multiple architectures. However, the experiment left the creator feeling uneasy due to … Read more