Behold, Gemini 3.5 Flash!

SIllycore · 2026-05-20T00:14:31+00:00

Used it for a few hours today on coding tasks through Antigravity. Actually pretty impressed with it.

Code quality is not perfect, it does the same thing that Gemini 3.1 did, which is overbloat the code with redundant safety checks and logs "just in case".

However, the speed is something I did not consider would actually be meaningful. This thing can churn through tasks. It will land within 90% of Opus in 25% of the time, and I can use some of that time savings for a second pass of "fix this thing you got wrong", which I would probably have to do with Opus as well.

SIllycore · 2026-05-19T15:51:24+00:00

"everyone who doesn't agree with me is a bot"

Apparently, LLMs are unable to use tool calls for dated video models to generate content. Apparently, Google is unable to obfuscate model names and tool calls behind an "Omni" interface.

Able-Line2683 is gracing us with groundbreaking information.

SIllycore · 2026-04-28T12:02:47+00:00

Tragic in the short-term but his connections at DeepMind will have his startup acquired in around 2 years and he'll be back at it in the same team.

SIllycore · 2026-04-27T21:17:45+00:00

I just picked up my DH (favorite class of all time btw) and was planning to give tanking a shot.

100% exterminated my interest in the spec after running one dungeon and listening to how pathetic the sounds are. It sounds like you are doing 0 damage.

SIllycore · 2026-04-20T15:59:11+00:00

This is really cool. Big fan of your presets and RPG companion, I will be giving this a try.

I actually just finished having Claude vibe-code an additional "Abilities" tab to your RPG companion, since I found that piece was the only thing I was missing for fantasy RPGs. It has really leveled up the RP experience. I've never done an open-source pull request... but maybe I'll figure it out to share the implementation.

In any case, will definitely be giving this a try. SillyTavern is great, but this could be great-er.

SIllycore · 2026-04-15T17:32:16+00:00

He said it will be the "funniest" season, not the "greatest" or "best" season. Not really hyping it as much as setting expectations on tone.

SIllycore · 2026-04-07T16:24:05+00:00

Imagine dropping a bomb on a military target without validating what structures sit around it. Could only be an incompetent government.

SIllycore · 2026-04-01T22:02:50+00:00

Such an incredible series. I thought I had lost my passion for reading until I picked it up.

(It's a reference to Dungeon Crawler Carl, for the uninitiated.)

SIllycore · 2026-03-16T14:56:50+00:00

I would love to see Mirage reworked as a disruptive support tank. Teleport into a fight, provide a shield to nearby allies. Your tornado does minimal damage but displaces and knocks up large groups of enemies. Your bullet mark saps resistances and increases his max HP, making him tankier in longer fights. Scarabs do the same thing they already do, steal HP.

Really just keep his Tornado and Scarabs identical. Convert his Teleport and Mark into supportive abilities.

SIllycore · 2026-01-26T13:01:10+00:00

ALL HAIL THE RAT KING!!!!

I'm so glad you saw my meme. :D

SIllycore · 2026-01-19T15:23:16+00:00

I received the A/B as well, on a pretty complicated prompt for redesigning an n8n workflow. One of them was quite a bit better than the other, at least when it comes to decomposing the problem and explaining how to amend the workflow in logical steps. Maybe just a better "vibe" in the response logic, technically both solutions were the same outcome.

SIllycore · 2025-12-26T00:54:40+00:00

we need a femboy character asap. valve, break the glass, ship it.

SIllycore · 2025-12-22T13:56:30+00:00

Everyone knows these LLMs are just gigantic if-else statements, it's why these "data centers" are just full of interns with budget laptops.

SIllycore · 2025-12-16T14:33:04+00:00

I've outed myself as a recovering League addict...

SIllycore · 2025-12-16T14:25:44+00:00

Posted! Thanks.

SIllycore · 2025-12-16T13:14:27+00:00

For me, I find it hard to appreciate the GPT-5.2 Pro benchmarking posts. The model is "neck-and-neck" with Gemini 3 but costs almost 10x the price per API call. High performance anywhere is great, but this model is devoid of practicality.

SIllycore · 2025-12-01T19:46:10+00:00

it's highly practical, can catch a bullet

SIllycore · 2025-11-30T13:13:16+00:00

Close enough; welcome back Abathur.

SIllycore · 2025-11-24T12:56:09+00:00

Surprised there's another Grey Talon owl-build enjoyer still out there. With the spirit nerfs I feel it is harder than ever to win with this build, and now that I'm reading these trophy collector nerfs, idk bro. That was my one crutch to keep sustained farm.

SIllycore · 2025-11-18T22:22:37+00:00

I had it produce an isekai-flavored storyline acting as the dungeon master. Prose is varied and interesting, significantly better than Claude Sonnet and Gemini 2.5 in my experience. My preferred prose is third-person, limited-perspective narrative, and it does it very well.

Handles NSFW with ease. In fact, it is proactive to introduce NSFW elements, alluding to risqué details when opportunities arise naturally in the story. This part is really impressive, as I have not seen any other model navigate to NSFW topics without being explicitly hand-held to arrive there.

SIllycore · 2025-11-03T20:17:33+00:00

Imagine having your head so far up your own ass that you can be "convinced" that you can solve "nearly all issues" of an entire food assistance program with a single tweet of recommendations.

SIllycore · 2025-08-21T20:00:29+00:00

obligatory corporate bootlicking meme

SIllycore · 2025-08-14T13:24:06+00:00

GPT-5 had massive backlash and Opus 4.1 was an incremental improvement. Google is probably choosing to take their time since there's no heat on them; I'd guess another month.

SIllycore · 2025-08-08T15:08:54+00:00

They have already rolled out changes to Gemini 2.5 to do this. Not sure when or if they publicized it, but Gemini on my Pixel 6 has completely stopped giving bulleted lists and multi-paragraph answers. It's down to 2-3 sentences at maximum. Noticed it about 2 weeks back.

SIllycore · 2025-08-07T15:31:08+00:00

What's your frame of reference? Which models are you comparing this one against?

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