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AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields

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Re: AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields

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AI improving itself (or at least the architecture it runs on), the singularity is near as they say. Do we have other examples of AI being used to improve the LLMs, apart for the creation of synthetic data and the testing of the models?

I feel like the most viral lately is https://github.com/karpathy/autoresearch

Re: AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields

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post #6

AI improving itself (or at least the architecture it runs on), the singularity is near as they say. Do we have other examples of AI being used to improve the LLMs, apart for the creation of synthetic data and the testing of the models?

> Do we have other examples of AI being used to improve the LLMs

Yes, last year when they revealed AlphaEvolve they used a previous gemini model to improve kernels that were used in training this gen models, netting them a 1% faster training run. Not much, but still.

Re: AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields

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post #6

AI improving itself (or at least the architecture it runs on), the singularity is near as they say. Do we have other examples of AI being used to improve the LLMs, apart for the creation of synthetic data and the testing of the models?

Shameless plug: https://huggingface.co/spaces/smolagents/ml-intern

It’s a simple harness around Opus, but with tight integration to Hugging Face infra, so the agent can read papers, test code and launch experiments

Re: AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields

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post #9

Are Googlers themselves happy using Gemini coding agent instead of Claude Code or Codex? (no snark, I'm really asking)

Last month, Steve Yegge suggested that they are not: https://xcancel.com/Steve_Yegge/status/2043747998740689171

This couldn't be further from the truth

Re: AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields

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post #9

Are Googlers themselves happy using Gemini coding agent instead of Claude Code or Codex? (no snark, I'm really asking)

Last month, Steve Yegge suggested that they are not: https://xcancel.com/Steve_Yegge/status/2043747998740689171

> He says the problem is that they can't use Claude Code because it's the enemy, and Gemini has never been good enough to capture people's workflows like Claude has, so basically agentic coding just never really took off inside Google. They're all just plodding along, completely oblivious to what's happening out there right now.

This is a bunch of gabagoo. Wrong on so many layers, it's not even worth reading further.

a) goog has agentic coding in both antigravity & cli forms. While it is not at the level of cc + opus, it's still decent.

b) goog has their own versions of models trained on internal code

c) goog has claude in vertex, and most definitely can set it up in secure zones (like they can for their clients) so they'd be able to use claude (at cost) within their own projects.

Re: AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields

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post #9

Are Googlers themselves happy using Gemini coding agent instead of Claude Code or Codex? (no snark, I'm really asking)

Note that coding is not the only use of Gemini or any of these models. It's also not what this article is talking about. Gemini can be not the best coding agent, but very good at other things.

Re: AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields

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post #11
post #6

AI improving itself (or at least the architecture it runs on), the singularity is near as they say. Do we have other examples of AI being used to improve the LLMs, apart for the creation of synthetic data and the testing of the models?

I feel like the most viral lately is https://github.com/karpathy/autoresearch

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Re: AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields

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post #9

Are Googlers themselves happy using Gemini coding agent instead of Claude Code or Codex? (no snark, I'm really asking)

Last month, Steve Yegge suggested that they are not: https://xcancel.com/Steve_Yegge/status/2043747998740689171

Demis Hassabis chimed in on that thread and called it what it is: clickbait.
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