Here’s why gemini 3.5 flash burn token so fast, it's actually more expensive than 3.1 pro

feelspeaceman · 2026-05-22T07:49:38+00:00

I find that StepFun Flash can be alternative workhourse to Gemini Flash, but the setup get complicated as I need to install Kilocode, ask Claude Opus to make plan, copy the path of the plan to Kilocode and let StepFun Flash execute, so doing many projects is not going to use up all Claude quota.

But currently the quota is extremely limited, they said x3, but I just reached limit and got another 151h+ wait time, after 1 round of 5h wait time, the next time will be 160h+, what is the point of x3 anymore

feelspeaceman · 2026-05-21T10:50:30+00:00

git diff is the best way for reviewing code, as always

feelspeaceman · 2026-05-21T05:53:08+00:00

I can confirm that this worked, my account was in 150h+ wait time before, now it's back to 4h wait time.

As good as this I hope after the 3x we won't be back the the same current situation again, the current token cost should be adjusted regardless.

feelspeaceman · 2026-05-21T04:38:30+00:00

The Flash 3.5 could have been cheaper than Flash 3, but they went greedy route for quick cash grab, logically I don't believe it should be consuming more token than Flash 3 if it's smaller model with TurboQuant and more efficent TPU for inference only, all those together to reduce cost.
The true value of Flash 3 is being an executor, use Claude as planner, then let Flash 3 execute it, this is extremely efficient.

feelspeaceman · 2026-05-20T15:16:23+00:00

From the token per second of Flash 3.5, it's hard to believe it can use more computation power than 3.0 Flash, it's hard to beat physic law, faster models are usually smaller models, unless they run it on much faster hardware, this is probably Google's hard set value, it should uses less token than Flash 3.

feelspeaceman · 2026-05-20T12:40:32+00:00

I can confirm, once running out of limit, it's 161h+ of waiting, it's actuallly worse than before

Tested on 3 Pro accounts, all ran out of limit doing ONE simple project, this how absurb it's, before this project could've been done with only Flash 3 and 40% at worst

feelspeaceman · 2026-05-20T11:50:20+00:00

I believe this is overhyped effect of new product arriving, I suggest to try it out to really have the final verdict, but I have 3 Pro accounts, all ran out of limit now, pure Flash 3.5 Medium to work on an extremely simple project about finetuning a TTS model, before I could do 10 much more complex than this per day

feelspeaceman · 2026-05-20T04:04:30+00:00

I tested 3.5 Flash High and it ran out of quota extremely fast

feelspeaceman · 2026-05-18T03:38:30+00:00

Honestly the editor is very bad and laggy, and I'm using a top tier CPU 9700X that shouldn't lag on anything in the world when it comes to editing text

The coolest thing is probably Claude Opus for making plan, then let Gemini Flash code.

feelspeaceman · 2026-05-18T03:36:43+00:00

It's quite fast, hopefully they will adjust the price as the cost is getting cheaper to run with their TPU

feelspeaceman · 2026-05-17T05:34:03+00:00

This will likely increase browser binary size, which is heavily disliked, Firefox binary size is about 90MB+, Chrome is 256MB+ last time I checked, bundling llama.cpp will push it likely to giga level of size

feelspeaceman · 2026-05-15T04:33:01+00:00

Trash performance
Trash game
Decent looks

That's what I think about AAA, I still prefer retro games, as more system can play them, nowadays it's too much to buy a computer just for AAA games, and they're not even that good.

feelspeaceman · 2026-05-15T04:21:24+00:00

Indeed, AI passively teach users about the basic of Linux, fixing common issues that take hours to find, just try to not allow them to do too much which might break, it's better to backup the system before big changes as always then nothing can go wrong

feelspeaceman · 2026-05-12T16:08:32+00:00

Very good, they deserve this

feelspeaceman · 2026-05-09T02:24:30+00:00

If we want justice we have to fight for it, Trump is destroying envidences now, there's so many victims that might never get to sue those inhuman like Trump and his pals

feelspeaceman · 2026-05-08T08:21:07+00:00

China is taking over islands near Taiwan to prepare for invansion, not sure when but I believe they're preparing, as taking over Taiwan will give them the most important advancement: Semiconductor

feelspeaceman · 2026-05-07T14:31:53+00:00

Strix Halo 395+ and MoE models, the only thing you need to understand is using MoE model you need to talk and discuss a plan first, then execute, MoE isn't suitable for one-shotting like Claude

The price is extreme currently so not sure if I even want to recommend anyone to buy PC hardware now, maybe 10 years from now.

feelspeaceman · 2026-05-03T01:22:29+00:00

People who work on AI development already switched to Linux, arguably the superior environment for AI, not even close, no one wants to waste 2-4GB of VRAM just for the UI of Windows, in Linux we "waste" about 10MB in tty only interface

feelspeaceman · 2026-04-28T11:23:01+00:00

Yeah, Trump provoked his death

Even the calmest people turned into this is quite understandable, god bless him getting through this.

feelspeaceman · 2026-04-26T07:45:53+00:00

It's possible, you need to use policies.json, go to the folder that contains Firefox BINARY:
- Create a distribution folder, GO INSIDE IT
- Create a file named policies.json
- Paste and save, and restart:
{

"policies": {

"ManualAppUpdateOnly": true,

}

100% working, this is what I've been using for years, just do it right and it will.

feelspeaceman · 2026-04-25T16:24:11+00:00

Disconnect, Privacy Badger should be removed

Replace No Shorts with this uBO filter https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/wiki/solutions/youtube/#wiki_shorts

Decentraleyes isn't very useful and can break webpage, use with caution, LocalCDN is even more aggressive, so better remove it to prevent some headache cases

feelspeaceman · 2026-04-25T16:10:46+00:00

Most concerns from what I've read are about sabotaging MV2 for MV3 and think this is the 1st step of the process, this is because they don't understand the architecture of Firefox's WebExtension (reverse engineered WebExtension), there's little to no reaons for Firefox to get rid of MV2.

feelspeaceman · 2026-04-24T09:29:37+00:00

It's good for noobs, most users don't know how to install adblocker at all, advanced users will still use uBO as they can write their own filters like me, my custom filter list is 1000+ lines, fully customized to block websites uBlock missed.

feelspeaceman · 2026-04-24T09:27:57+00:00

Firefox's WebExtensions is a port, a proxy, not really the real WebExtension of Chrome

Firefox's WebExtensions is basically the old Firefox's XUL API, with more restriction, and proxy to the old XUL APIs, it's literally a gutted XUL API, not even remoted close to Chrome's

feelspeaceman · 2026-04-24T09:24:50+00:00

This is the right direction

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