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		fxtentacle 13 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C ... You could hire a reasonably skilled dev in India for a week for $1k —- or you could pay $20k in LLM tokens, spend 2 hours writing essays to explain what you want, and then get a buggy mess.

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Philpax 13 days ago [–]

No human developer, not even Fabrice Bellard, could reproduce this specific result in a week. A subset of it, sure, but not everything this does.

falloutx 13 days ago | [–]

just forked https://github.com/Vexu/arocc and it took me 5 seconds to complete it.

defen 12 days ago | | [–]

That can't build the Linux kernel though.

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