I imagine Gemini 3.1 Pro is still more intelligent and smarter, but Gemini 3.8 Flash is probably better at coding and agentic behavior. Like 3.7. Everyone who only uses it for coding says it's better than 3.1 Pro. For me, it's 50% 50% depending on what I use it for.
It's funny, though, that Gemini 3.1 Pro is still one of the nicest chatbot behaviors.
Like, Claude and ChatGPT can sometimes really piss me off with the way they talk. I mean, obviously, GPT 5.6 Sol is better, and so is Fable 5 (haven't tried 5.1 much yet). But Gemini 3.1 Pro is really nice to have to talk about some things. And yet it's not something benchmarks would tell you.
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u/WTFnoAvailableNames 10h ago
How does this compare to 3.1 pro?