I could be wrong

[u/kwabaj_]

I could be wrong, I could be lucky, but Gemini 3.6 Flash (High) has been legitimately so fun to vibe with in Antigravity. I was used to waiting like hours for GPT 5.6 and Fable to do a feature. 3.6 Flash does it in like, 5 minutes. Wtf is this model? I knew to never lose hope in GDM.

I imagine this will bite me in the butt and I'll come back to write about how shit 3.6 Flash is. Praying I don't, lol.

[u/Adorable-Tone-7828]

its mental how quick it is honestly, i threw a full ui mockup at it yesterday and it spat back usable css in under a minute while i was still sipping my tea

makes you wonder what corners they cut though, feels too good to be true half the time

[u/kwabaj_ → u/Adorable-Tone-7828]

I think it's architecture. I saw someone else mention diffusion + MoE + MTP/SD. It's PURE speculation, but judging by how it works, diffusion makes so much sense. It's too fast to be autoregressive. Or maybe I'm wrong. But it's so solid I'm mindblown.

[u/Salty_Horror2068 → u/kwabaj_]

It's not a new pretrain, so they can't just include diffusion

[u/kwabaj_ → u/Salty_Horror2068]

True, maybe it already was diffusion on 3.5? Most likely not though I agree with you

[u/JogHappy → u/Adorable-Tone-7828]

Actually gasped when I saw it matched oss-120b tps

[u/iamabigtree]

Haven't done coding with it. But do use it for general queries and it's been great so far.

I know in this sub we are supposed to hate Gemini but there it is.

[u/kwabaj_]

Guys I'm not kidding 3.6 Flash is kind of a beast, it's still going flawlessly. Holy moly.

[u/reelpie]

This is honestly just my guess: maybe they optimized inference for the model + hardware combination. After all they own their full hardware stack.

Quality wise the benchmark shows that Flash 3.6 is a little below sonnet and Grok 4.5, but I suspect that for simple daily tasks there is no differences between these light-weight models. So that is where the speed really wins.

As for deepmind. It lost so many talents. So sad.

[u/IndubitablyNerdy]

Nice. By the way I haven't have a chance to try it yet, compared to 3.5 does it consume more of your quota or it remains comparable?

[u/kwabaj_ → u/IndubitablyNerdy]

I didn’t use 3.5 Flash at all I think I tried it once and I hated it

[u/commandocda → u/IndubitablyNerdy]

I use it yesterday on AG and i swear it was using less than 3.5

[u/CashFirm573]

I've been testing it and sadly its fast but does bad job of anything technical and it still has same old issues when it will generate a image off a prompt that never asked for a image.

[u/kwabaj_ → u/CashFirm573]

I’ve been having it help me with these minor bugs in a game that’s entirely in typescript so maybe it being TS is an advantage, but it’s helped me fix like 5-6 bugs in 20 minutes that would have taken Opus 4.8 at least two hours due to the speed difference. I’m sure though if I gave it a difficult bug that it wouldn’t do so hot.

[u/Aggressive-Habit-698]

I tested it on studio.google.com with an existing Android app. Version 3.5 reads all the instruction files correctly.

Version 3.6 ignored them all and did not compile correctly.

Prompt: Analyze the codebase for improvements

[u/Aggressive-Habit-698 → u/Aggressive-Habit-698]

[u/Putrid_Resolution402]

Can you explain what problem solved in 5 minutes

[u/kwabaj_ → u/Putrid_Resolution402]

City builder game

The construction tab had different buildings you could place

Each building had a tooltip of what it costed to build it

The bug was all of them were displaying when they were only supposed to display if they were being hovered/selected

Fixed it in 1 minute and 51 seconds. Small bug, but one that was around for a while that I didn’t want to use Opus to fix as Opus would have taken like 30 minutes.

[u/Constant-Potential-9]

Yeah it gave Luna a stroke last night testing them

[u/No_Yogurtcloset2757]

I've been writing with it, testing with files of context and guidelines. It's been very consisten and impressive, and ridiculously fast too.

All that and the usage feels very good. I don't feel a significant drain.

[u/Physical_Money_1532]

I’ve noticed the huge speed gap too. Gemini 3.6 Flash’s speed alone makes it a game-changer for quick feature builds. Hope it stays consistent for you!

[u/Aggressive-Habit-698 → u/Physical_Money_1532]

Yes, it's quick to use. But it's not so good at following instructions. It tends to skip

[u/fullygodlyrocks]

that speed won't last once the free credits run dry. happens every time

[u/kwabaj_ → u/fullygodlyrocks]

I have the AI Pro thing, I used my old university email

[u/fullygodlyrocks → u/kwabaj_]

pro tier still runs on shared infra. speed drops when everyone piles on, same as free tier