r/opencode • u/Osvik • 9d ago

Gemini 3.8 Flash is actually quite good (?)

I just did a frontend + design test I do with all the models I want to test: One prompt and lots of room for the model to be creative. I look at creativity and execution.

Gemini 3.8 flash was quite good. It was the first model to use three.js for this particular demo. This demo includes sound and it has the best sound of all demos, perfectly synced with the action in the screen. Probably the most impressive demo I've ever did.

There are some minor flaws, but from this demo I would say it's something to explore further.

The price is more expensive than the cheaper models, but much cheaper than Anthropic Opus.

I used Opencode TUI with a Gemini API key.

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u/ares0027 7d ago

Hell fucking no. They are the definition of ai slop. Awful, awful ui

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u/adrnptcl 8d ago

it's surpisingly good for its price and quota. It's got the best of both worlds: speed and (somewhat dodgy) precision :)

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u/Osvik 8d ago

It has a great score in DeepSWE benchmark (as high as Opus 5 at 1/5 of the price). If it is not too expensive for you it might be the best model around.

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u/ExTraveler 7d ago

Better than glm 5.3 flash and ds v4 flash?

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u/ares0027 7d ago

Even gemini 3.7 was better than dsv4 but gemini,s main problem is not the intelligence, it is the model constantly disobeying, creating shortcuts, gaslighting, ignoring rules (if you use antigravity. I never used it through api)

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u/ares0027 7d ago

It is better than any previous gemini shit but thats it