Editor's Note
Welcome to the first installment of The Blitzy Blitz, a weekly newsletter showcasing what Blitzy is building. Follow along to see updates in the Open Source Enhancement Initiative and Building With Blitzy series on our blog.
The most recent experiment was improving upon the Claude C Compiler, see below for details! If you aren’t interested, feel free to unsubscribe.
Why The Blitzy Blitz?
Most “AI for engineering” content is polished but disconnected from real work.
The Blitzy Blitz is different. We show you what happens when our autonomous software development platform tackles real-world production scenarios.
No fluff. No theory. Just purposeful experiments with measurable outcomes shared in our blog.
Here’s a quick look at the most significant results so far.
Claude’s C Compiler
Let’s kick off with the latest release: Blitzy Fixed & Enhanced Claude’s C Compiler.
Last month, Anthropic released an article where a senior researcher steered a team of parallel Claude agents to build a C Compiler in Rust. Naturally, one of our engineers decided to put Blitzy to the test, picking up where Claude left off.
After one Blitzy run: 370 engineering hours done in 4 days. Full C11 conformance. 6-tier optimization pipeline. 1,883-line linker script parser.
Same challenge. Fundamentally different approaches.
Check out our third open source blog here
Featured Blog Initiatives
Innovation anchors the Blitzy team and fuels our two blog initiatives.
Blitzy Open Source Enhancement Initiative
Taking on high-impact community projects burdened by technical debt, Blitzy pushes them forward. Real repos, constraints, and outcomes.
Blitzy Autonomously Rewrote dnsmasq: Discover Blitzy’s first contribution: refactoring dnsmasq.
Blitzy Refactors curl in Rust: 640 engineering hours done in 5 days. Take a look at how Blitzy migrated curl from C to Rust.
Building with Blitzy
Practical, not technical. How Blitzy can help anyone, from designers to engineers, work smarter, not harder.
How Blitzy Built This Blog: Blitzy designer Aditya’s adventure in building the blog page, where he achieves a development milestone: his first commit.
From Sketch to Production in 8 Hours: Developer Michael “Monty” Montanaro’s story of doing an internal portal makeover in one weekend.
If you care about where software development is going, follow along.
We are just getting started, so stay tuned.
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