I was thinking about DeepMinds AlphaEvolve from last month. It’s pretty cool. The results are cool. The overall structure is pretty straightforward-ish though. As in, it did not surprise me very much. AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms (announcement) AlphaEvolve: A coding agent for scientific and algorithmic discovery (paper, pdf) AlphaEvolve, Wikipedia Here’s how I’m thinking about it. It’s a GA with LLM operators. Something that many people ...
