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Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
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Re: Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
#372The speed combined with the fact that this thing is really good at HTML JavaScript is pretty exciting. Here's what I got for 1.8 cents and 13 seconds from the prompt "make me a cool thing in html": https://gisthost.github.io/?6a77bc41a81718c6aaa10d4ab243c59f Transcript here (it was part of a chat): https://gist.github.com/simonw/b6149a49d327164d67d62c3d12992...
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Re: Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
#373I like Google's strategy here. These new Flash models of late (Flash 3.6, 3.7 and now 3.8) have obviously been distilled from a much larger unreleased model (Gemini 3.5 Pro, iirc from the rumors). One aspect of model releases that don't get discussed as much are the cache invalidation (changes in underlying architecture, weights, or tokenizers); I assess Google seems to be squeezing the maximum out of the last 'Pro'…
A couple larger GCP customers requested this for sometime, especially on the cybersecurity side.
A SOC/IR or AppSec team doesn't need a generalized model that knows when Chaucer lived but it absolutely needs a model that can efficiently, quickly, and accurately prioritize vulnerability severity or validate patches.
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#374Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because people tend to like fidelity more than correctness.
It bugs me a little that "fidelity" has connotations other than "faithfulness to an original"---fidelity should be basically the same as correctness here!
That’s really not the highest fidelity interpretation of “fidelity.”
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#375I have to say:
The Google brand remains powerful on HN!
I’m shocked.
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#376Earlier quoted context omitted.
As someone who has stubbornly stuck with Claude Code, what's a good harness for Gemini models?
Antigravity has been also rapidly improving lately, and your can also use any of the open coding harnesses. But I mostly meant “harness” as in your workflow/loop setup.
Is that possible? What subscription would that be? 'Google AI Plus'?
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#377I can’t wait until waiting hours and spending a big chunk of your usage per task seems antiquated, and real-time iteration on massive code changes is the norm. This might just be the year of efficiency, that truly allows AI to be used to the heart’s content.
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#378Wait, I didn't realize 3.7 Flash was already beating Sol on a bunch of the benchmarks. Isn't it a way smaller models?
It's pretty good if you can actively steer it , its actually really really good , the antigravity free tier and pro tiers are generous as well . I'm shocked at how fast it generates tokens.
Can the free tier be used outside Antigravity CLI? Because its security prompts get old pretty quick.
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#379There must be a deeper read on why Google can rapidly ship better small models while being delayed months on the bigger model.
What's the simplest explanation?
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#380Am I the only only one thinking that Google might still "win" the AI race, despite the apparent gap? They're apparently evolving slower than most SOTA models but "slow and steady wins the race" is probably still a thing. And since Google doesn't depend exclusively on AI models, they can probably afford to "wait and see" where all this craze is heading.
Staying a little ways behind the leaders is not "slow and steady." Every company is moving very fast right now.
I don't think slow and steady will win this race, but I think anyone can still win--especially Google.