AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields | Hacker News

A Hacker News commenter says AlphaEvolve’s edge may come from persistence, not new intelligence.

The system can keep iterating on a task far longer than humans typically would.

It uses existing evaluation tools and verification harnesses that people could access too.

The debate is whether this reflects genuine AI capability or automation of tedious search work.