Dev claims Gemini 3.8 Flash beats Opus 5.5 for traditional RAG in finance
rickasaurus · x · 2026-10-10
Developer rickasaurus shared a hands-on take: Gemini 3.8 Flash is the best model for old-fashioned RAG workloads, especially in finance — "it's a beast and makes almost no mistakes," outperforming Opus 5.5.
It's a single anecdotal benchmark without published details, but a useful signal for model selection in retrieval-heavy pipelines.
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