Ten days ago I had an experience with Gemini 3.8 flash that made me wonder if I was being routed to a different model under test. I was trying to use rocm with llama.cpp on my 128gb Strix Halo but could only get it to run Vulkan. I pasted the error message into agy and it proceeded to attach GDB to my GPU driver, reverse-engineer the kernel queue ioctl interface, and author an LD_PRELOAD C shim to get ROCm llama.cpp working on my Strix Halo. My jaw was hanging open the whole time.
Edit to add the fix: <a href="https://gist.github.com/birep/6f2c8d490c7a29820997d57bd654c351" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/birep/6f2c8d490c7a29820997d57bd654c3...
3.8 Flash is just quite good, and so is the Antigravity harness.
I use a mix of Fable 5.1, Opus 5.5, and Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini holds it's own. Especially in writing, frontend, and sysadmin work. agy for configuring a NixOS system has been truly incredible.
I tried antigravity a little while ago and it was utterly useless for Objective-C code, tasks that both Claude and Codex handled just fine.
Not only could it not complete the small task, the code was obviously wrong from looking at it and did not even compile.
When I pointed that out it got pissy and insisted the code was perfect and I didn't know how to use a compiler, or the compiler was buggy. Pasting the compiler errors did not help.
taylorfinley · · focus · HN ↗
Edit to add the fix: <a href="https://gist.github.com/birep/6f2c8d490c7a29820997d57bd654c351" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/birep/6f2c8d490c7a29820997d57bd654c3...
spankalee · · focus · HN ↗
I use a mix of Fable 5.1, Opus 5.5, and Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini holds it's own. Especially in writing, frontend, and sysadmin work. agy for configuring a NixOS system has been truly incredible.
mpweiher · · focus · HN ↗
Not only could it not complete the small task, the code was obviously wrong from looking at it and did not even compile.
When I pointed that out it got pissy and insisted the code was perfect and I didn't know how to use a compiler, or the compiler was buggy. Pasting the compiler errors did not help.
Surreal.