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It's hard to know for sure because their methods aren't public, but my guess is the dataset they constructed pushes the Fast Apply model to more aggressively fix mistakes introduced by the frontier model in the edit snippet.
This aligns with the fact that their flagship model (morph-v3-large) is 4x slower than ours -- the smoothings/hallucinations are not in the initial code or the edit snippet so they break speculative continuations more frequently. Their 2x faster model (morph-v3-fast) is likely quantized more aggressively (maybe fp4? and run on B200s?) because it exhibits very strange behaviors like hallucinating invalid characters at random points that make the code non-compilable.
From an accuracy POV, auto-smoothing is helpful for fixing obvious mistakes in the edit snippet like missed imports from well known packages. However, it does increase the frequency of code breaking hallucinations like invalid local imports among other functional changes that you might not want a small apply model to perform.
You can definitely use it for markdown, but we haven't seen anyone test it for plaintext yet. I'm sure it would work though, let us know if you end up trying it!
If a file is "relevant" the agent looks at it and decides if it should keep it in context or not. This process repeats until there's satisfactory context to make changes to the codebase.
The question is whether we actually need a 200b+ parameter model to do this or if we can distill the functionality onto a much smaller, more economical model. A lot of people are already choosing to do it with Gemeni (due to the 1m context window), and they write the code with Claude 4 Sonnet.
Ideally, we want to be able to run this process cheaply in parallel to get really fast generations. That's the ultimate goal we're aiming towards
For Cline or Claude Code where there's a dev in the loop, it makes sense to spend more money on Gemeni ranking or more latency on agentic discovery. Prompt-to-app companies (like Lovable) have a flood of impatient non-technical users coming in, so latency and cost become a big consideration.
That's when using a more traditional retrieval approach can be relevant. Our retrieval models are meant to work really well with non-technical queries on these vibe-coded codebases. They are more of a supplement to the agentic discovery approaches, and we're still figuring out how to integrate them in a sensible way.
It's on the roadmap to make public evals people can use to compare their options. A lot of the current benchmarks aren't really specialized for these prompt-to-app use cases
We are trying to make this as accessible as possible to the open-source community, with our free tier, but feel free to reach out if you need expanded rate limits. Cheers :)
Please do reach out, we love talking to builders in this space & would love to share notes & give you free access. eborgnia@relace.ai