Reading up on Gemini 3.5 Flash

Gemini 3.5 Flash offers strong speed and agentic performance but suffers from higher cost, hallucination issues, and Google integration problems, making it niche rather than a top-tier contender.

: HN commenters analyze Gemini 3.5 Flash's likely parameter count (~250-300B total, 10-16B active) and debate whether frontier models are actually much smaller than rumored.

Google released Gemini 3.5 Flash at a 3x-6x price increase, yet deploys it across Search and Gemini app, testing price tolerance.