After enjoying working so much on the ideas introduced by Alpha Evolve by Google, the whole concept of reading research papers became way less daunting and more exciting, which led me to arxiv.org and its massive volume of publications.

At the same time while I was working on my own custom version of Alpha Evolve I was improving my skills and learning quite a bit of Python on the backend side. But as time went on, I noticed something fundamentally off, my work lived only on my laptop, as a poorly entangled mix of Python scripts that I would run manually from VS Code. It all worked, but it was not presentable, runnable, deployable or interactive in any way or manner. It was code with high degree of abstraction and functionalily, but it was not software engineering.

It had come the time to learn what it takes to take an idea from prototype to production alongside all its different stages. And that's how Alexandria came to be, a simple idea: "Use LLMs to help me pre-filter what papers I would enjoy and would be more suited for me at a given time". Take that idea and go all the way through.