A reminder that google is the only major lab without a meaningful opt-out of training on your data. The only way to opt out is to disable message history entirely, which seems like a darkest of dark patterns to get users to leave "opt in" to training on, because next to nobody wants to use it without message history.

I wish google to thrive

Nice surprise. In a few of my own tests it seems maybe a tad slower than 3.7 (but still way faster than any other LLM I've used) and even smarter. With 3.7 I felt I could just not use 3.1 Pro at all and 3.8 seems even better.

Could someone explain to me why it matters if google has the best model? Isnt the real metric cost per task?

But where is Gemini 3.5 pro?

Gemini 3.8 flash thinks Entoloma sinuatum is good to eat... Otherwise feels great

What did it say?

The race to the bottom continues

I have to say:

The Google brand remains powerful on HN!

I’m shocked.