Google I.O. brought major updates, but the developer community is furious. Is Gemini 3.5 Flash a massive step backward for production apps? In Episode 16 of Rate Limited, Ray, Eric, and Adam break down the massive backlash surrounding Google’s new pricing model and token consumption, why the Gemini CLI is getting aggressively sunset, and whether Cursor’s new Composer 2.5 is the absolute pinnacle of AI coding workhorses. We also react to Andrej Karpathy’s massive jump to Anthropic, detail a wild success story of modding Zelda into VR using Codex's Goal Mode, and discuss how to transition your mindset into the era of probabilistic, agentic engineering.If you are an engineer or builder navigating the frontier of AI, hit that subscribe button for deep, unfiltered technical breakdowns twice a month.Links:Ray: https://www.youtube.com/@RayFernando1337Eric: https://www.youtube.com/@pvncherAdam: https://www.youtube.com/@GosuCoder00:00 - Google I.O., OpenAI, & Composer 2.500:45 - The Truth About Gemini 3.5 Flash & Token Guzzling02:08 - Is Gemini Rebranding What "Flash" Means?03:45 - Prompt Performance & Instruction Following in Anti-Gravity05:47 - Google's Profit Margins and Capacity Constraints06:15 - RIP Gemini CLI: Google Consolidating Compute07:38 - The Hidden Cost of Small Model Reasoning09:38 - Google's Distillation Strategy & Compute Allocation11:41 - Knowledge Cutoffs & Eval Degradation in Gemini 3.513:40 - Anti-Gravity 2.0 Drama: Shifting Away From Consumers16:40 - Composer 2.5 First Impressions: A Pure Coding Workhorse19:15 - Building Parallel QA Agents with Browser Use21:32 - How Cursor Pulls Off Trillion-Parameter Speeds23:18 - Is Speed the Moat? Continuous Improvement RL Loops25:25 - The Messiness of Real-World Context vs. Static Evals27:13 - Tool Search vs. Preloading Context Bloat28:14 - Minimal Context Setups vs. Skill Maximalism32:00 - The Lack of Portability Between AI Harnesses34:25 - GPT-5.5 Low/Medium vs. Anthropic 4.7 Latency38:10 - Tool Tinkering vs. Grabbing Off-The-Shelf Tech39:11 - The Team's Current Model Stack (Vibe Check)42:11 - Codex App: Mind-Blowing Background Computer Use44:39 - Goal Mode vs. High-Level Orchestration Loops48:23 - Success Story: Modding Zelda into VR Using Goal Mode50:33 - Andrej Karpathy Joins Anthropic: Why Now?52:30 - The Value of Co-location & The Bay Area Sparkle55:00 - Impact Over Upside: Technologists Shaping Green Spaces56:09 - The Mindset Shift: Transitioning to Agentic Engineering58:30 - Auditing Your Threads & Finding Inefficiencies01:00:27 - AI Automation as "Mana" for Your Life

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