alt Hacker Newsyou'd be surprised, but there's actually a bunch of problems you can solve with something like this, as long as you have a safe place to run the generated code
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jnkl • 05/15/2025
Could you elaborate what problems can be solved with this?
you'd be surprised, but there's actually a bunch of problems you can solve with something like this, as long as you have a safe place to run the generated code
Could you elaborate what problems can be solved with this?
I was super interested in genetic programming for a long time. It is similarly non-deterministically generated.
The utility lies in having the proper framework for a fitness function (how to choose if the generated code is healthy or needs iterations). I used whether it threw any interpretation-time errors, run-time errors, and whether it passed all of the unit tests as a fitness function.
That said, I think programming will largely evolve into the senior programmer defining a strategy and LLM agents or an intern/junior dev implementing the tactics.