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by AnimalMuppet 1809 days ago
That's... decent. It's a lot larger than I ever got with a GA.

I don't think we're ever going to get a GA to produce an air-traffic control system, or a database, or an OS. But 300 lines (that work) is further than I was aware had been possible.

(When I said "decent" in the first paragraph, that sounds like I'm damning it with faint praise. And I kind of am. But I am doing so in light of the Linux kernel, which is something like 100 million lines. I am not doing so to minimize this as an achievement within the world of GA-generated code. I'm just saying that we're a ways from being able to handle most real-world problems with GA-generated code.)