This resonates with my experience. At Morph we use gemini for well specified point coding tasks, and it does very well across millions of lines of code every day. We also use claude code as an engineering tool for our own codebase and it does better at being adaptive and for working on open ended issues.
Readit Newsa11r commented on Why Developers Keep Choosing Claude over Every Other AI bhusalmanish.com.np/blog/... · Posted by u/gmays
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Hey everyone,
Wow, you scooped us! we weren’t really expecting to launch here just yet, but happy to answer any questions y’all have :)
First, Pierre is building code storage for machines -- think GitHub’s infrastructure layer, but API-first and tuned for LLMs.
What does that actually mean? We’ve spent the last 18+ months speed running GitHubs infrastructure (with a lot of help from early GitHub folks)… this is Github’s spoke architecture with a few modern twists + object store for cold storage.
Up until this point, GitHub is the only team that’s built a truly scalable git cluster (gitlab, bitbucket, etc. are all enterprise plays, with different tradeoffs).
Code.Storage is meant to be massively scalable… and we’ll be doing a larger post on what that means, and the scale we’re already doing soon hopefully :)
On top of this, we’ve invested a TON of time into our API layer – we have all the things you’d expect, list files, create branch, commit, etc. – with some new api’s that agents have found helpful: grep, glob based archive, ephemeral branches (git namespaces), etc.
Right now we’re in private beta – but happy to do my best to answer any questions in the short term (and if you’re working on anything that might benefit from code storage or storing code like artifacts – please reach out to jacob@pierre.co
It would be nice to see a side-by-side comparison with Github on pricing and features. We are using github and creating hundreds of repos everyday without any issues (except for the occassional API outages that Github has). Curious to see your take on where Pierre is better.
This is very nicely done. We have seen the same issue at a higher level of getting separators right when generating multiple files in a single inference call.
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a11r commented on Create personal illustrated storybooks in the Gemini app blog.google/products/gemi... · Posted by u/xnx
Nice ! Curious what your prompt was.
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The system prompt in this experiment limits the solution to always spell out the concrete moves verbally. A human solving the Tower of Hanoi gives up around N=4 and goes off to invent a recursive solution instead. Prompted differently, the LLM would solve these puzzles just fine.
Here is my complete review/analysis of the paper: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/art-abstraction-human-advanta...
edit: fixed typo
a11r commented on Rethinking Diabetes – interview with Gary Taubes theguardian.com/society/2... · Posted by u/prmph
Good article, but there's one thing that really bothers me:
> perhaps because of his serious and scientific background – he has a physics degree from Harvard and studied aerospace engineering at Stanford [...]
Which, for the thing he's doing now, is not a serious background! Knowledge isn't transferrable and there are plenty examples of people who transfer fields with unwarranted confidence and make totally bogus claims (see the Nobel disease [1]). I wish we would stop claiming the opposite, because especially in a field like nutritional sciences you can find some "evidence" for any theory (see eg. the Chemical Hunger drama [2]).
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_disease
[2] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NRrbJJWnaSorrqvtZ/on-not-get...
Gary Taubes has written multiple scholarly books on the subject. He has won the Science in Society Journalism Award of the National Association of Science Writers three times. I think a training in one scientific field does qualify a person to go spend their time digging into other fields. How well they do is a matter of personal ability and effort and one would have to read their output and judge for oneself. I have read many of Taubes's book and many of the papers cited in his books and have concluded that he is a well qualified expert in the field.
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