January is already obsolete. My honest breakdown of Opus 4.6 + what it means for developers, leaders, and everyone in between.
Sixteen AI agents coded for two weeks straight — humans set the spec and validated the results, but didn’t write the code — and delivered a functional C compiler. Roughly 100,000 lines of Rust. According to Anthropic’s engineering blog, it compiles substantial real-world systems software — including the Linux kernel, PostgreSQL, FFmpeg, SQLite, QEMU, and Redis — and passes the vast majority of the GCC torture test suite. Cost: $20,000.