u/Colours-Break

OK. It was painful upgrading to 2.0. Now that it is all working I have to say I'm impressed with 3.5 and the new Agent Manager works hand-in-hand with the IDE and CLI components.

I'm building an Enterprise Architecture management application that leverages a graph database and a modern web frontend. The architecture of the application was predominately planned with the Anthropic models and implemented using Gemini 3.

I asked 3.5 Flash through the Agent Manager for an assessment and it offered up and implemented some significant improvements. The Agent Manager was spinning up sub-agents and parallel processes to get its work done. It was incredibly efficient and fast with its work. I would say it is easily on par with the Sonnet and Opus 4.6 models.

Though a rough start I've ended up very happy with this latest upgrade. I also appreciate the 3x extra tokens.

I was using the Gemini CLI extensively before the upgrade. It would route to different models depending on the complexity of the task. This saved a ton on token usage. I'l be testing it and the IDE more this week.

This release was not well thought out. I can't get access to Podman on my MacOS laptop because of 2.0 sandbox security restrictions. This makes the new 2.0 UI worthless for my CI/CD processes that use pods. I also burned through all my tokens just getting to this answer. What a disaster of a Google Developer I/O conference and release. Hopefully they learned a few lessons. I've been holding off on getting an Anthropic subscription because I have Gemini Pro through my Google One subscription. With this mess I think its time I start looking at Anthropic. I just don't get how it can be this bad.