Evolving AI Code

Code Evolver is a web-based tool built for Google’s Gemini contest that lets humans and large language models co-evolve small web programs—HTML/CSS/JS snippets—via generate–select–mutate iterations.

Code Evolver treats large language models as mutation engines while humans provide selection pressure, together exploring the vast space of possible small web programs rather than trying to “prompt engineer” a single perfect solution.

General-purpose language models like Gemini and GPT serve as Code Evolver’s code engines, but their strengths and weaknesses shape what kind of software emerges from the evolutionary process.

The video’s author, a working web developer, is explicit that Code Evolver in its current form prototypes small web toys but does not replace professional frontend engineering, highlighting concrete boundaries on what LLMs plus a thin UI wrapper can realistically do.