Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber

Meh, not any noticeable improvement and unlike 3.7 high it eats all your credits, perhaps medium would be better

The biggest problem with Gemini is that its performance degrades the longer you use it for coding. Is it just me?

"Page not found"...

What is with Google's dumb ass STILL refusing to respect the OS dark mode setting in fucking 2027??

It's 404 now.

not really getting the excitement over this, its at opus 5 medium level, and opus 5 is not really the go to model , claude purists hate it

so its fast sure and decent at non coding usage but for developers nothing can really top sol or fable.

even grok 4.6 is so so and i would not choose 3.8 flash over it.

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And yet again another failed launch from Google. I pay for their AI plus Google one package to get more cloud storage (have no interest in their AI bundle but you have to pay). and all I see in the Gemini app is 3.6-flash

I'm trying it now for token heavy coding tasks, it's capable for many tasks but in noway compares to Claude/Sol - requires more prompts and the output isn't as good.

So just another mid-tier flash model, nothing exciting, but Antigravity has very generous quotas so it's a good workhorse model when your Claude/OpenAI subs run out.

And whilst it's a fast model, having to baby sit through and approve prompts every few seconds ends up making it slower than the Auto approve modes of Claude/ChatGPT - they definitely need an auto approve mode.

Looks like Google's given up on frontier models for external consumption?

Gemini is getting less useful with each update. I could edit a pdf with the 3-pro model before but 3.1-pro couldn't edit the given pdf nor it could generate one for me.

One place where I find the Flash models surprisingly bad is Google Search's "AI Mode".

A recent example - I searched for how to unsubscribe from Pearson emails. Google Search "AI Mode" confidently gave me a sequence of steps along the lines of Settings > Profile > Email preferences > Unsubscribe.

Of course, I looked for an unsubscribe link before asking Google. None of those options existed. The correct answer was there is no way to unsubscribe through the account, so I just blockthe emails instead.

I've run into this pattern quite a few times. AI Mode seems to make up things all the time.

Not to rain on anyone's parade but I find it strange how excited and giddy people on HN get for any new X.X model releases. Pumping it straight to the top, clamoring to use it, check and compare benchmarks, bragging about it being your "daily driver"?

Are you people truly this excited about this crap? I mean I guess if you work for Google or Anthropic or whatever I could see it??? Otherwise, are these just bot comments?