I was working some time ago on LLM assisted optimizations and algorithm discovery and this does not look like a novel idea.
AlphaEvolve from google is evolutionary algorithm which uses LLMs for Idea generation following very similar loop:
- https://deepmind.google/blog/alphaevolve-a-gemini-powered-co...
- Open source implementation of the algorithm: https://github.com/algorithmicsuperintelligence/openevolve
I mean, this is such low hanging fruit, you have to be careful not to step on it.
It is not novel - but with the new models it is just becoming practical.