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> And in 20% of cases, AlphaEvolve improved the previously best known solutions, making progress on the corresponding open problems.
https://deepmind.google/blog/alphaevolve-a-gemini-powered-co...
I feel like I don't hear many bird calls in the city where I live, but maybe I'll have to set one up for myself to find out!
How am I expected to comment "LGTM" if I can't even get to the PR?
^: https://www.npr.org/2026/04/23/nx-s1-5795526/deafness-gene-t...
During university, for an exam in a graduate databases course, I had to manually calculate the number of operations for a query, down to the ones place. We were given an E-R diagram, the schema, and the query. So we had to act as the query planner - build out the B+ tree, check what was most efficient, and do it.
This is by all means a pointless endeavor - no one has had to do this by hand in literally decades. It was also among the hardest cognitive tasks I've ever had to do. After being one of two people to complete the exam in the three allotted hours, I sat outside the lecture hall on a bench for a little while because I though I might faint if I went any further.
I’m beginning to feel the same about writing code by hand. If I can design systems that are useful, performant, and largely maintainable, but the code is written by an LLM, is this harmful? It feels that I spend more time thinking about what problems need to be solved and how best to solve them, instead of writing idiomatic typescript. It’d be hard to convince me that’s a bad thing.
I remember, after reading about new features C# 8.0, someone wrote that C# 9 would write all your code for you, and that C# 10 would just mail you a check every month. How the times have changed...
As far as how I / other people do it, there are some obvious styles that reek of LLMs, I think it’s chatgpt.
There’s a very common structure of “nice post, the X to Y is real. miscellaneous praise — blah blah blah. Also curious about how you asjkldfljaksd?"
From today:
This comment is almost certainly AI-generated: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47658796
And I'm suspicious of this one too - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47660070 - reads just a bit too glazebot-9000 to believe it's written by a person.
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[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/1p204nx/ac... [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47230704
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
And you dip dip, dip...
Not the first firebase/supabase exposed key disaster, and it certainly won't be the last...