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Gemini 3.5 Flash costs are ugly
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Gemini 3.5 Flash costs are ugly

Gemini 3.5 Flash is out, and the price numbers look pretty bad.

By headline numbers, the user cost of the model has _tripled_ per million tokens:

  • Gemini 2.5 flash: $0.30/$2.50
  • Gemini 3.0 flash preview: $0.50/$3.00
  • Gemini 3.5 flash: $1.50/$9.00

What's more interesting is that the model appears to use a lot more tokens to operate. Benchmarks from a third party show the following:

  • Gemini 2.5 flash (27 score): $172 (1.0x)
  • Gemini 3.0 Flash (46 score): $278 (1.6x)
  • Gemini 3.5 Flash (55 score): $1,552 (9.0x)

For roughly 2x the benchmark score, you're paying 9x the cost to complete it.

I guess the subsidy era is coming to an end.

u/Existing_Rice_4362 — 3 days ago
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Kiosk Kingdom - It's not X, it's Y

I've started reading Kingdom and noticed a strange literary tic that I didn't see in the previous books. Over and over, the prose will say "it wasn't X, it was Y", or a similar variation. The final scene with Nikolai was probably the most notable example.

What's up with that?

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u/Existing_Rice_4362 — 13 days ago
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>Second, AI is changing how we work. Over the past year, I’ve watched engineers use AI to ship in days what used to take a team weeks. Non-technical teams are now shipping production code and many of our workflows are being automated.

Coinbase is one of the juiciest hacking targets on the planet. The consequences of this choice should be interesting.

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u/Existing_Rice_4362 — 17 days ago