A week back, I started exploring Genetic Algorithms — and honestly,

the concept blew my mind a little. The idea that you can solve complex optimization problems by mimicking how evolution works felt almost too clever to be real.

So I needed a problem to test it on. Something non-trivial, something with real-world relevance. That's when I stumbled upon the Vehicle Routing Problem — figuring out the efficient routes for a fleet of vehicles to visit a set of locations and return to a depot.

Here's how it went.

What Even Are Genetic Algorithms?