Gemini 3.8 Flash Accused of Bench Overfitting, Regressing vs 3.7 in Third-Party Tests

bindureddy · x · 2026-09-03

Developer bindureddy reports that Gemini 3.8 Flash appears overfit to public benchmarks: on his private hidden-question set it scores worse than 3.7 Flash, with a regression in data analysis. He still calls 3.7 Flash an excellent model and urges Google to stop shipping Flash increments and release Gemini 4.0 instead.

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