Casey Newton

I saw some ube croissants on my way in.

I'm still trying to figure out what that means, but I'm going to go try it out.

Perfect.

So I did try to use anti-gravity, their kind of coding assistant, to put the model through some of my own evaluations.

And it seems like two things are true.

One is it's very fast.

It's very fast and you don't hit your sort of token limits at all, like very quickly, which is a nice contrast to some of the other coding models that I've used.

And the second thing is that it just doesn't seem like that much of an improvement over what is out there now.

I think there have been some people on my feeds talking about how they are feeling disappointed by the new Gemini model.

There's some indications that it's maybe not as good as Gemini 3.1 Pro at some coding evaluations.

But it is much faster.

And I think the other thing that people are reacting to is the cost factor.

So the cost of Gemini 3.5 Flash, while lower than other kind of frontier models, is significantly more expensive than the last version of Gemini Flash.

So people are upset about that.

But I think in general, my sense is like,

It's a good model.

It's a pretty good model.

It's not like blowing me away, but it is quite fast.

And if you are a company that's burning, you know, billions of tokens a day, you might be interested in that.

But for the average person, I would say like nothing about it has made me want to switch to it as my daily driver yet.