Dev swaps gemini-3.8 for gemini-3.5-flash-lite in his MCP harness at a fraction of cost
julianharris · x · 2026-09-11
The author shares Ceetrix, his MCP server for ensuring agent harnesses actually deliver — converting conversations into PRDs, tech designs, tasks, and tests that the whole team can edit. Free while in beta.
After extensive backtesting on content quality gates, he migrated from gemini-3.8 to gemini-3.5-flash-lite: equal quality for his use case at a fraction of the cost — "you don't always need SOTA."
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