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		simianwords 2 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for des... I'm surprised I'm not able to find this out - can some one tell me whether AlphaEvolve involves backprop or not? I honestly have no idea how AlphaEvolve works - does it work purely on the text level? Meaning I might be able to come up with something like AlphaEvolve with some EC2's and a Gemini API access?

dmos62 2 days ago [–]

No, the program and prompt databases use a genetic algorithm.

simianwords 2 days ago | [–]

So with just a server an Gemini access + their code I can achieve the same thing? Nice

dmos62 1 day ago | | [–]

Yes, but I don't think that their code is accessible. And the whitepaper is light on details.

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