The environment is the product

Someone spent $20,000 and 2,000 sessions building a C compiler with 16 Claudes. His key insight wasn't about the model. It was about everything around it. Nicholas Carlini spent $20,000 and 2,000 sessions building a C compiler with 16 instances of Claude. It works. It compiles real programs. And his key takeaway wasn't about the model. "Most of my effort went into designing the environment around Claude." Not the prompts. Not the temperature. Not the model version. The tests. The containers. The feedback loops.