Coding bootcamps give students an opportunity to pursue an area of interest and establish a portfolio to use in their job search.

Doing some coding is essential, says Michael Kölling, a specialist in computing education at the University of Kent: it motivates pupils and means they find out whether their algorithms work.

The most successful algorithms then guide the next round of evolution. AlphaEvolve doesn’t just generate code from its training data.

The unveiling of the algorithm comes after an unknown user posted portions of Twitter's source code to GitHub.