PromptPotter — articles https://promptpotter.com The article series behind PromptPotter: program evolution with an LLM as the proposer, what it took to make it a tool, and what attaches to the loop next. en The loop is the floor. https://promptpotter.com/headroom https://promptpotter.com/headroom Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT David Streuli The optimizing loop is the floor, not the ceiling. Everything worth adding attaches to it rather than replacing it: self-improvement, synthetic data, topology mapping, bigger networks, web search. How much any of them adds is not yet measured. The science was done. The tool was missing. https://promptpotter.com/zero-friction https://promptpotter.com/zero-friction Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT David Streuli Why prompt optimization stayed in the lab: not the loop or the statistics, but the hours between reading about a result and having one running on your own work. What it takes to close that gap. Simple but Effective Search: Entering the Era Where It Climbs with the Models. https://promptpotter.com/program-evolution https://promptpotter.com/program-evolution Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT David Streuli Evolutionary search is an old, universal loop: biology, genetic algorithms, RL, AutoML. AlphaEvolve and PromptPotter are that same loop with an LLM as the proposer, which finally makes it general enough to improve almost any artifact.