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Posted by bratao 1 day ago

Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber(blog.google)
https://deepmind.google/models/model-cards/gemini-3-8-flash/
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sergiotapia 23 hours ago|
Who coined the phrase "cyber" for security related things lol. It's so 1999.
estearum 23 hours ago||
Hasn't the field been called "cybersecurity" since... forever?
fwip 13 hours ago||
Sure, but the appropriate shortening here is "security."

Calling it cyber is like shortening email to "e".

estearum 4 hours ago||
...? There are lots and lots of fields of security that have nothing to do with cybersecurity...
sumeno 22 hours ago|||
I assure you that in 1999 "cyber" meant something very different
josefresco 23 hours ago|||
Cyber is more of an early 1990's thing, and I have no issue with it unlike most in the tech field. I feel like it dropped off in the late 90's and early 00's but made a comeback as hacking became a mainstream security issue.
cleverpotato479 23 hours ago|||
Amusingly, "cyber" comes from the word "kubernetes"!
Gander5739 23 hours ago|||
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1573/
atemerev 23 hours ago||
A/S/L?
barapa 23 hours ago||
love these flash models
casey2 11 hours ago||
Meh, not any noticeable improvement and unlike 3.7 high it eats all your credits, perhaps medium would be better
yipinwong 1 day ago||
"Page not found"...
jdw64 23 hours ago||
The biggest problem with Gemini is that its performance degrades the longer you use it for coding. Is it just me?
hirako2000 23 hours ago||
Filling the large context does that yes.

But a good agents.md, starting from a clean slate, and specifying which key files to look into and follow the standards allows me to build gigantic projects even I struggle to keep in my head structurally.

deno 22 hours ago|||
Seems maybe you’re keeping a forever-session and multiple independent tasks end up overstaying in context?

I would say either start new sessions for new tasks or limit the context to something smaller than 1M.

I usually start with research/planning session, this goes into a detailed implementation plan and then a new session for the actual implementation.

If it's complex problem maybe a review/adversarial step between plan and implementation.

Also with forever-session any time you take a longer break (depends on model and provider as to how long) you will push an entire big context again without caching even if you don't need it. With 1M context this gets expensive.

zuzululu 18 hours ago||
thats not just the context growing issue, hallucinations is a thing
weird-eye-issue 2 hours ago||
I routinely have massive threads using Fable and if anything it only gets better and better over time
Mashimo 1 day ago||
It's 404 now.
freedomben 1 day ago||
Came and went in a flash
k8sToGo 1 day ago||
Because they are preparing Gemini 3.9 Flash
pixl97 23 hours ago||
The real singularity is when new models are released faster than we can change the model dropdown dialog.
kingstnap 1 day ago||
The blog post is gone but I can currently use it in the gemini chat website.
Razengan 18 hours ago||
What is with Google's dumb ass STILL refusing to respect the OS dark mode setting in fucking 2027??
zuzululu 18 hours ago||
not really getting the excitement over this, its at opus 5 medium level, and opus 5 is not really the go to model , claude purists hate it

so its fast sure and decent at non coding usage but for developers nothing can really top sol or fable.

even grok 4.6 is so so and i would not choose 3.8 flash over it.

hn4e309qn4 2 hours ago||
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greenjudge 5 hours ago|
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