NVIDIA Proved Evolutionary Code Search Beats Humans — Here's What an Open Protocol for It Looks Like
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NVIDIA just published a paper that should make every software engineer pause. Their system - called AVO (Agentic Variation Operators) - ran autonomously for 7 days on a Blackwell B200 GPU, optimizing attention kernels with zero human intervention. The result: it outperformed NVIDIA's own cuDNN library by 3.5% and FlashAttention-4 by 10.5%. The researchers call their philosophy "blind coding." Bing Xu, one of the lead authors, puts it bluntly: "Blind coding is the future of software engineering.