I cannot wait for a quake engine book. I'm sure a few hundred of us would be happy to pre-pay so you can take some time off work and write it all up :)
My gut reaction is something like: "don't wait around to be picked, get out there and do great stuff"
Want to help the world get the most out of claude? Go out there and do it at an ability and velocity beyond what others think is possible. Go so hard friends think you're mad. That devs consuming your stuff think you're mad.
Create so much amazingly useful/helpful content and help so many people in so many ways that looking back in 1-2 years at the idea of working for anthropic would seem insane to you.
Hmm, it's more that LLMs can be used for population -> candidate solution generation, e.g. operators in a GA.
The innovation is novelty search, e.g. divergent rather than convergent optimization, paired with the capability that LLM genetic operators and representations unlock.
At least, that's my high-level take. google's alphaevolve is the same kind of thing but focused on convergent ga's (i think).