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

#31

Post by tiahura » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 3:41 PM UTC

3.5 Pro must really suck.

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

#32

Post by Alifatisk » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 3:42 PM UTC

sosodev wrote: post #27

ConfusedDog wrote: post #17

Why would 3.6 flash perform a little worse than 3.5 flash on Artificial Analysis Coding Index... https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/gemini-3-6-flash?intell...

Because AA Coding "Index" consists only of two benchmarks (Terminal-Bench v2.1, SciCode) and generally fails to be meaningfully representative of agentic coding capabilities.

Whats a better option for AA Coding Index?

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

#33

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 3:43 PM UTC

b473a wrote: post #14

No word about updating Jules, which is still stuck on 3.1 Pro. I get that it's probably niche but I've really appreciated basically being able to give directions to Jules on my phone, then reviewing and merging a GitHub PR fifteen minutes later. It's been great for getting some progress in on a few personal projects during my commute when I can't exactly pull out my laptop. Anyone have any good alternatives?

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

#34

Post by WarmWash » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 3:43 PM UTC

The mention of an "ambitious" gemini 4 pre-train signals to me that 3.5 pro is probably a lost cause.

That being said, it seems that Gemini is still the best image analysis model, so hopefully 3.6 flash builds on this even more.

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

#35

Post by canergl » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 3:43 PM UTC

2 red flags

1- no comparison with gemini 3.1 pro

2- no comparison with any other model

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

#36

Post by youssefarizk » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 3:43 PM UTC

3.5-lite is the real showpiece here; agentic models of this size are a huge value-add for 90% of knowledge work agent tasks

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

#37

Post by sreekanth850 » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 3:43 PM UTC

Google is walking backwards, with such a pile of cash in pocket, i feel they are doomed.

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

#38

Post by thevinter » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 3:44 PM UTC

I struggle to see any value in this when DeepSeek is still a thing.

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

#39

Post by steven_pareto » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 3:45 PM UTC

b473a wrote: post #14

No word about updating Jules, which is still stuck on 3.1 Pro. I get that it's probably niche but I've really appreciated basically being able to give directions to Jules on my phone, then reviewing and merging a GitHub PR fifteen minutes later. It's been great for getting some progress in on a few personal projects during my commute when I can't exactly pull out my laptop. Anyone have any good alternatives?

If you own a Raspberry Pi or similar: Hermes + Tailscale + iSH over tmux.

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

#40

Post by drob518 » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 3:46 PM UTC

mfkrause wrote: post #20

Pretty underwhelming, as expected honestly. I don't want to know what morale is like at DeepMind right now.

Yep, agreed. They still are not releasing anything frontier-class (Gemini Pro) at this point. Feels to me that they keep getting scooped by others (e.g. Kimi 3) and then are retrenching.