Comment by panarky
1 day ago
In my experience with chat, Flash has gotten much, much better. It's my go-to model even though I'm paying for Pro.
Pro is frustrating because it too often won't search to find current information, and just gives stale results from before its training cutoff. Flash doesn't do this much anymore.
For coding I use Pro in Gemini CLI. It is amazing at coding, but I'm actually using it more to write design docs, decomp multi-week assignments down to daily and hourly tasks, and then feed those docs back to Gemini CLI to have it work through each task sequentially.
With a little structure like this, it can basically write its own context.
I like flash because when it's wrong it's wrong very quickly. You can either change the prompt or just solve the problem yourself. It works well for people who can spot the answer as being "wrong"
> Flash has gotten much, much better. It's my go-to model even though I'm paying for Pro.
Same I think also Pro got worse...
interesting out of all "thinking models," I struggle with Gemini the most for coding. Just can't make it perform. I feel like they silently nerfed it over the last months.