ok this part kinda blew my brain open. it’s literally like you’re watching code evolve like git history on steroids. archive not pruning anything? yes. finally someone gets that dead code ain’t always dead it’s just early.

letting weaker agents still contribute? feels illegal but also exactly how dumb breakthroughs happen. like half my best scripts started as broken junk. it just kept mutating till something clicked.

and self-editing agents??? not prompts, not finetunes, straight up source code rewrites with actual tooling upgrades. like this thing bootstraps its own dev env while solving tasks.

plus the tree structure, parallel forks, fallback paths basically says ditch hill climbing and just flood the search space with chaos. and chaos actually works. they show that dip around iteration 56 and boom 70 blows past all. that’s the part traditional stuff never survives. they optimise too early and stall out. this one’s messy by design. love it.