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Evolve or Die Trying: When LLMs Stop Writing Code and Start Designing Algorithms

A developer asks an LLM to “write a better algorithm.” The LLM obliges. It writes code. The code runs, perhaps after a few rounds of apologetic debugging. The result is slightly better than the baseline, or at least sufficiently mysterious to be called “novel.” Everyone nods politely. Another benchmark table is born. ...

April 15, 2026 · 18 min · Zelina
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When Heuristics Go Silent: How Random Walks Outsmart Breadth-First Search

A planner stalls. Not because the goal vanished. Not because the system lacks compute. Not even because the heuristic is completely wrong. It stalls because the heuristic has temporarily stopped saying anything useful. Every nearby state looks equally unpromising, or worse, misleadingly unpromising. The algorithm is still running, naturally. It is very busy being lost. ...

November 13, 2025 · 4 min · Zelina