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Published by Anthropic Engineering (T1 source). The original is at https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-c-compiler.

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Anthropic researcher Nicholas Carlini describes an experiment in which multiple Claude Opus 4.6 instances worked in parallel on a shared codebase to build a C compiler with minimal human supervision. The 'agent teams' approach had instances coordinate autonomously on a single repository.

Firsthand account from Anthropic of parallel Claude instances co-writing a C compiler with minimal oversight. Useful for readers designing multi-agent workflows or gauging current autonomy limits.

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