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AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms

934 pointsby Fysiyesterday at 3:10 PM245 commentsview on HN

See also https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01523-z (https://archive.is/NBaXE)


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ldjkfkdsjnvyesterday at 3:33 PM

Software engineering will be completely solved. Even systems like v0 are astounding in their ability to generate code, and are very primitive to whats coming. I get downvoted on HN for this opinion, but its truly going to happen. Any system that can produce code, test the code, and iterate if needed will eventually outperform humans. Add in the reinforcement learning, where they can run the code, and train the model when it gets code generation right, and we are on our way to a whole different world.

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nprateemyesterday at 3:47 PM

Maybe this one can stop writing a fucking essay in code comments.

I'm now no longer surprised just how consistently all the gemini models overcomplicate coding challenges or just plain get them wrong.

Claude is just consistently spot on. A few salient comments for tricky code instead of incessantly telling me what it's changed and what I might want to do, incorrect assumptions when it has the code or is something we've discussed, changing large amounts of unrelated code (eg styles). I could go on.

Shame I'm too tight to pay for Claude RN though...

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owentbrownyesterday at 7:48 PM

AlphaEvolve is confirming evidence of an intelligence explosion.

The key ingredient for an intelligence explosion is AI accelerating development of AI.

This is it. It’s happening.

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