It is legit - with some pretty severe caveats. I am pressed to come up with an example that has more formal specification, published source implementations, and public unit test coverage than a C compiler.
It is not feasible that someone will use AI to tackle genuinely new software and provide a tenth of the level of guide-rails Anthropic had for this project. They were able to keep the million monkeys on their million typewriters on an extremely short leash, and able to have it do the vast majority of iteration without human intervention.
It is not feasible that someone will use AI to tackle genuinely new software and provide a tenth of the level of guide-rails Anthropic had for this project. They were able to keep the million monkeys on their million typewriters on an extremely short leash, and able to have it do the vast majority of iteration without human intervention.