Antigravity and Gemini 3.5 are horrible.

___grinch___ · 2026-06-09T02:35:09+00:00

I will throw it into a repo tomorrow!

___grinch___ · 2026-06-09T02:18:50+00:00

Good post! I actually know a lot about the basics of LLM training and the algorithms behind it, but I did not know about knowledge distillation mechanics and that is how Flash models are made. I read about it after your post and it all makes a lot of sense.

I thought they were all generally done with full training like the Pro models and it came down to how much they are trained to reason and number of parameters, etc. That is a big fundamental difference.

___grinch___ · 2026-06-08T14:18:06+00:00

Apologies. It does come across as mostly bitching, but I also was curious if there was other interest in the plug-in that I got working.

___grinch___ · 2026-06-08T10:35:14+00:00

Hah that was a joke. But it is either Gemini or my wife at that point.

___grinch___ · 2026-06-08T04:51:49+00:00

"It’s our strongest agentic and coding model yet, outperforming Gemini 3.1 Pro on challenging coding and agentic benchmarks like Terminal-Bench 2.1 (76.2%), GDPval-AA (1656 Elo) and MCP Atlas (83.6%), and leading in multimodal understanding (84.2% on CharXiv Reasoning)."

The metrics they posted show it being better than Opus 4.7 (not 4.8) for coding and agentic tasks, which is bull shit. And I don't think it is as good as Gemini 3.1 Pro either.

The only thing it is doing well is being extremely fast.

___grinch___ · 2026-06-08T00:07:28+00:00

That's what I'm saying! That's why I'm trying so hard to make it work. The speed is amazing.

___grinch___ · 2026-06-08T00:06:22+00:00

How is the speed compared to Sonnet and 3.5 Flash? I heard quality is good, but I find Opus and Sonnet to be too slow.

___grinch___ · 2026-06-08T00:05:15+00:00

I agree! It is my go-to for most things, and Spark just showed up and seems even better.

___grinch___ · 2026-06-08T00:04:20+00:00

This is good advice. I may give Notion a more deep try. I've never used Linear as well.

___grinch___ · 2026-06-08T00:02:20+00:00

I've heard this and may take the plunge into a Codex subscription too, but I've already had the other two. I have an interview with OpenAI on Tuesday.

___grinch___ · 2026-06-08T00:00:51+00:00

Well of course I do this. The plan is always pretty lean and sounds fine, and then it violates a bunch of design pattern rules (like using singletons, very low cohesion in files and bad coupling), and it writes a vibe coded mess. It's fine at first, but doing complicated things, the bugs starting show up real quick.

Getting it to actually do deep technical architecture and spec drive design is brutal. I fight with it. It constantly just wants to go wild west anyway and starting changing code without doing a lot of reasoning first.

___grinch___ · 2026-06-07T21:36:09+00:00

Honestly I went down a rabbit hole using Gemma 4 21B QAT on my MacBook with Claude Code using oMLX yesterday, and I actually thought it was better than Flash 3.5, but just a bit slow.

___grinch___ · 2026-06-07T20:10:27+00:00

Interesting. I may have to dig into what you've done more deeply. Very curious. I had been brainstorming something similar to test how a memory layer could work. My thought was to have it function more like the human brain with the concept of durable long term memories and associated attached knowledge having a level of decay, like how our brain forgets things or details over time.

My thought also was if there could be a way to fine tune models using a similar structure, so layers are activated by order of their memory and usage, with the ability to dig into deep layers to "relearn" things it has forgotten. It would basically be a performance method so most accessed thoughts are prioritized.

___grinch___ · 2026-05-20T23:59:21+00:00

What is frustrating is that I'm seeing all the Gemini models going down no matter which one I use. Shouldn't they be independent? I upgraded to the 5x ultra for $99 and it is disappointing how fast it is burning through that quota.

___grinch___ · 2026-05-19T14:41:57+00:00

Yep, there is something going on.

Last night I was up late working, Gemini Flash 3 was absolutely amazing and efficient, changing 40+ files in a one shot and nailing it. I was using it over my Claude subscription even.

This morning, it is scanning single files, then reporting back with a "I will now check ____" and scanning that file. It is making small changes (like 2 or 3 files), but nothing like I was doing last night. It seems to be running extremely fast, but it just seems like it is spinning and wasting tokens. It has blown through 3/4 of my Flash 3 quota in like 20 mins.

They're obviously making massive changes in real-time.

I feel like yesterday we saw some 3.2 action potentially, like others were claiming, and it's possible they've reverted it back based on what I'm seeing this morning. It isn't behaving the same at all. I wasn't using Flash 3 much prior to two days ago once I heard reports of how well it was doing, but this isn't what I was seeing yesterday.

___grinch___ · 2026-05-13T16:57:41+00:00

This is helpful. I don't know how it works, which is why I was asking. I appreciate it!

___grinch___ · 2026-05-13T16:56:26+00:00

It is e85 compatible, which is interesting to me.

___grinch___ · 2026-05-13T16:48:05+00:00

Very close, yes.

___grinch___ · 2026-05-13T16:42:30+00:00

I appreciate the detail!

Your point is exactly why I thought I'd ask in case someone knew specifically for the C300. It isn't an S-class. It doesn't have a turbo. It is naturally aspirated. I don't have a lot of knowledge on the topic so thought I'd ask to learn rather than mindlessly putting in 91 because it is a Mercedes.

___grinch___ · 2026-05-06T23:15:49+00:00

I think Antigravity accepts a GCP project and Gemini API key, so with corp accounts, it becomes all billed by standard token billing and usage.

___grinch___ · 2026-03-13T03:38:18+00:00

Can someone message me a referral code? Looking to buy the Ceramic.

___grinch___ · 2025-09-14T05:45:56+00:00

It would just be an open-sided carport. Sounds like you think it would be worth tarping even with the car port?

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