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I think it depends - the actual thing to measure it to keep a developer in flow state. Many errors as well as latency break this. To be brief yes, accuracy comes first. Quality is measured 2 main ways: 1) End-to-end: User query -> to task resolution. These are aider style benchmarks answering the question of actual task completion 2) Apply Quality: Syntax correctness, character diff, etc.. The error rate for large vs…

I don't believe anyone can be in some kind of "flow state" while waiting on LLM responses. I think it's funny that we complained for years about C and others being slow to compile and now folks are fine waiting seconds++ everytime they want to change something.

how so? Is your view that flow state at all isnt a thing, or just with using LLMs?

Re: Launch HN: Morph (YC S23) – Apply AI code edits at 4,500 tokens/sec

#24

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I don't believe anyone can be in some kind of "flow state" while waiting on LLM responses. I think it's funny that we complained for years about C and others being slow to compile and now folks are fine waiting seconds++ everytime they want to change something.

how so? Is your view that flow state at all isnt a thing, or just with using LLMs?

Flow state is 100% a thing, it's just impossible with LLMs (at least, for me). I can't be blocked waiting on things during a flow state or my mind starts wondering to other places.

Re: Launch HN: Morph (YC S23) – Apply AI code edits at 4,500 tokens/sec

#26

> 1) Raw inference speed matters more than incremental accuracy gains for dev UX—agree or disagree? I know you are trying to generate some controversy/visibility, but i think if we are being transparent here, you know this is wrong. People prefer using larger (or reasoning) models, with much bigger diff in tok/sec just for quality in coding, it comes first. Even if i have a big edit to apply, like 5k tokens, 200-300m…

I think it depends - the actual thing to measure it to keep a developer in flow state. Many errors as well as latency break this. To be brief yes, accuracy comes first. Quality is measured 2 main ways: 1) End-to-end: User query -> to task resolution. These are aider style benchmarks answering the question of actual task completion 2) Apply Quality: Syntax correctness, character diff, etc.. The error rate for large vs…

> the actual thing to measure it to keep a developer in flow state.

Personally, I find flow state hard to achieve when I constantly have to switch modes to debugging LLM output or an edit error that I missed.

When the majority of time is spent waiting for the main LLM to think, I will always wait a few extra seconds for a better edit than risk having to spend multiple cycles playing find-the-bug because something didn't get applied correctly somewhere.

Re: Launch HN: Morph (YC S23) – Apply AI code edits at 4,500 tokens/sec

#27

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how so? Is your view that flow state at all isnt a thing, or just with using LLMs?

Flow state is 100% a thing, it's just impossible with LLMs (at least, for me). I can't be blocked waiting on things during a flow state or my mind starts wondering to other places.

I've had the opposite experience.

Re: Launch HN: Morph (YC S23) – Apply AI code edits at 4,500 tokens/sec

#28

Is there anyway to bring this into Claude Code?

Make an MCP server, and turn off the Write|Edit|MultiEdit tools?

Actually - that's what this company should do. It should be an MCP server so anyone could plug it into any agent with a url and an API key.

Re: Launch HN: Morph (YC S23) – Apply AI code edits at 4,500 tokens/sec

#29

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how so? Is your view that flow state at all isnt a thing, or just with using LLMs?

Flow state is 100% a thing, it's just impossible with LLMs (at least, for me). I can't be blocked waiting on things during a flow state or my mind starts wondering to other places.

Fast Apply definitely helps with keeping flow state and is a large part of Cursor's success

Personally I work on multiple repos at a time to solve for this

Re: Launch HN: Morph (YC S23) – Apply AI code edits at 4,500 tokens/sec

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post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Flow state is 100% a thing, it's just impossible with LLMs (at least, for me). I can't be blocked waiting on things during a flow state or my mind starts wondering to other places.

I've had the opposite experience.

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