Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber

Post by hypfer » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 5:13 PM UTC

simonw wrote: post #227

hypfer wrote: post #218

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Well, yeah. No one does. But, also, as said, you're an industry (and foss!) veteran, so I find it impossible to believe that you haven't had your fair share of baseless bullshit being thrown at you, and with that, you gaining a persona that will not be hit by that, because it clearly knows that it is in fact bullshit. Unless of course it doesn't really know that with certainty. As said, I would _love_ to give you the…

I'm a professional blogger now. I still also work on open source software. I'm even fine being called an "influencer" ( shudder ), but I take offense to accusations of unethical behavior. I think very hard about the ethics of what I'm doing and how I can best use my "platform" ( shudder again) in as constructive a way as possible.

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 5:14 PM UTC

kingstnap wrote: post #161

primaprashant wrote: post #55

A couple tidbits: > Beyond today’s releases, Gemini 3.5 Pro is currently testing with partners and we plan to make it broadly available as soon as it’s ready. > We have started our most ambitious pre-training run yet, for Gemini 4, and are excited by the progress.

While them fixing token bloat on 3.5 Flash is good work. That paragraph was the real highlight. Hopefully 3.5 Pro is soon, and that Gemini 4 can be here end of year and finally have an updated knowledge cutoff.

Post by Foobar8568 » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 5:14 PM UTC

sdesol wrote: post #223

Eridrus wrote: post #213

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I don't think it's that early tbh, agentic coding has ~90% adoption in the US. Claude Code has largely won individual developer mindshare and has been on top ever since it came out. The benchmarks change, but almost nobody opts to use anything other than Claude IME when I ask them. Enterprise is more competitive since they care about costs and other things, but developers leaning towards Claude puts a thumb on the sc…

> Claude Code has largely won individual developer mindshare and has been on top ever since it came out. Claude Code's success is not due to the agent but because the model is considered the best for programming and is very heavily subsidized, compared to pay as you go API prices. Consumers and Enterprise are not really locked in and will go where it makes the most sense. I think they have almost no loyalty by actual…

Post by squidbeak » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 5:16 PM UTC

hypfer wrote: post #97

tomrod wrote: post #85

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Its a nice benchmark. Like hearing the ice cream truck on a summer day.

It's both. I agree to rednb that at this point it feels like rather obvious brand building, but also, I agree with you that some value is in it. It does not feel all that authentic though, and it's good to react allergically to lack of authenticity. Bad for a lot of business models, but good for humanity.

Post by noopprod » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 5:16 PM UTC

hypfer wrote: post #187

simonw wrote: post #169

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You and a few other people, but enough people still appreciate the bit that I'm going to keep doing it. They're easy enough to skip - click the little "-" icon and you'll collapse the entire sub-thread.

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