Logan: Gemini should have poured resources into Coding much sooner over Nano Banana; 4.0 beta underway
gaganghotra_ · x · 2026-09-22
Citing Logan Kilpatrick on Gemini 4.0: in hindsight, Coding deserved an order of magnitude more investment much earlier instead of prioritizing image models. Nano Banana was a hit, but the real developer bottleneck is code and agents. Beta testing for 4.0 has reportedly started, and the mysterious '3.8 Flash' surging in the Arena is crushing coding and long-context tasks—rumored to be more than the standard Flash. Unconfirmed leak.
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