Kevin Roose

So I feel like we have not really had a chance yet to talk to developers and see what is on their minds.

Clearly, they have a lot of new toys to play with, and I'm sure they're excited about that.

But as I said, until you get your hands on them, you don't really know if your life has changed.

Yeah.

And I guess I will say one thing about the vibe here at I.O.

this morning, Kevin, which is this is the only recent gathering of a large number of people where mentions of AI did not produce a large chorus of boos.

This was a crowd where people actually seemed like they wanted to hear about new AI developments.

And as we saw many, many AI generated images and videos for almost two hours, there was nary a boo to be heard.

All right, well, I think those are some good early thoughts.

We have a lot more to do at I.O., starting with probably hitting that lunch line in the press tent.

All right, Kevin.

Well, we are back in the studio the day after I.O., and we have a few hours before we head back down to interview Sundar Pichai.

But before we do that, you have spent a little bit of time playing around with this new Gemini 3.5 Flash model.

So what have you been doing with it?

Yeah, I have to say like this class of models has always just felt like it's not for me, right?

Like I am somebody who is always willing to wait a little bit longer and to spend a little bit more to get the best answer, right?

Like I would sort of rather do that than just sort of have like instant answers from a very cheap model.

Yes, that's exactly right.

That's exactly right.

Look, I think for a very wide variety of use cases, a model like this is going to be perfectly fine.