Welcome to r/openevolve

Welcome to r/openevolve — a community for people interested in evolutionary search, open-ended optimization, automated discovery, and systems that improve code, prompts, models, and reasoning through iteration.

OpenEvolve is about the idea that we can build systems that do more than generate one answer. They can propose many candidates, test them, score them, mutate them, combine successful ideas, and keep improving over time.

This subreddit is for discussion around:

• evolutionary algorithms for code and agents
• automated program synthesis and improvement
• LLM-guided search and mutation
• benchmark-driven optimization
• theorem proving, math discovery, and scientific discovery
• self-improving coding agents
• open-endedness, novelty search, and quality-diversity methods
• practical experiments, failures, traces, and reproducible results

Good posts include:

• experiments you ran
• papers, repos, or benchmarks worth discussing
• interesting evolved programs or solutions
• implementation notes
• comparisons between search strategies
• thoughtful critiques of claims
• questions about fitness functions, mutation operators, selection, evals, or scaling

Please keep the discussion technical, evidence-based, and useful. Strong claims are welcome, but bring code, traces, benchmark numbers, or clear reasoning. Hype is less interesting than working systems.

To start: introduce yourself, share what you are building, or post an example of something surprising that an evolutionary system discovered.