Anthropic gave 16 AI agents $20,000 and 2 weeks. No human wrote a single line of code. They built a program that can compile the Linux operating system from scratch. Here’s why the coordination matters more than the result. Imagine 16 workers renovating the same house simultaneously. Without rules, they’d paint over each other’s walls. Solution: before starting a job, each agent writes their name on a sign-up sheet. If someone already claimed “fix the kitchen,” you pick something else. Simple file in a shared folder. First come, first served. Any problems? Yes. The system broke when they hit one massive task: compiling the Linux kernel. Think of it like 16 cooks trying to fix one broken recipe at the same time. Each one tastes the soup, adds salt, but the next cook doesn’t know salt was already added. They kept undoing each other’s work. The fix was clever. They brought in a professional chef (GCC, an existing compiler) to cook most of the meal. The AI agents only handled random portions. When something tasted wrong, they could pinpoint exactly which portion the AI messed up. Some would call that cheating. But the agents decided to do this themselves, no human told them to. And honestly, knowing when to use existing tools instead of reinventing everything from scratch? That’s what good engineers do too. What they built: 100,000 lines of code. Can compile Linux, PostgreSQL, Redis, FFmpeg, and even run Doom. 99% pass rate on standard tests. What they can’t do: “Hello World” sometimes fails. Now the reality check. The GitHub repo has 41 open issues. Titles include: “can’t even compile linux as the description says,” “big words with nothing to back them up,” and simply “F*** off.” People who actually tried using the compiler found parser errors, missing tests, and broken basic features. The methodology, 16 agents coordinating via git locks, splitting work, self-organizing, that’s genuinely forward-thinking. But the output today remains a toy, not a tool professionals would trust. The approach is the future. The result isn’t there yet. And that gap is exactly where the interesting work happens next. ------ source: anthropic.com/engineering/bu…

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Today, we are at Crypto Talks Warsaw, discussing the future of the crypto market in an era of increasing regulation. We’re also exploring how the Baltic countries can cooperate to better serve and benefit their citizens.