alt Hacker NewsGemini Flash is one of the best "good-enough" models. I use this type of model daily, for automation and quick development iteration loops.
Unfortunately, it's often not strong enough for heavy refactoring and long running development loops.
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christoff12 • yesterday at 6:18 PM
'Tis a good workhouse, indeed. I hope they give us a 4.0 Pro that can use Flash subagents soon.
dismalaf • yesterday at 7:42 PM
Yup. I use it for a ton of mundane queries (stuff that I might have used Google search for in the past) and it's great. Nice and fast and correct more often than not, especially if you prompt it in a way that it invokes Google search (but filters out ads and SEO slop). It's even alright at programming tasks but if it stumbles then I'll escalate to Gemini Pro with extended thinking.
Yeah we use it for auto-triage of incidents, attempts to auto-remediate, and escalation to human. But for actual development, it’s not a viable option for us.