Early Gemini 3.8 Flash impressions: pleasant chat and fast, but still weak at coding
zacharynado · x · 2026-09-06
A user's first impressions of Gemini 3.8 Flash: exceptionally natural conversation and fast responses, strong at knowledge work and engineering, but not the best at coding. The author suggests using it to orchestrate agent sessions on other models instead, a workflow offered in their product Synara.
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