How 16 Claude Agents Burned $140K to Build a C Compiler in Opus 4.6
Anthropic’s midnight release of Claude Opus 4.6 showcased a $140,000 “stress test” where 16 Claude agents collaboratively wrote a Linux‑compatible C compiler, achieving a 100‑k‑line Rust codebase, while the model also added deep Excel/PPT integration and lifted finance benchmark scores by up to 23 percentage points.
