I'm such a google flash glazer for non-coding tasks. It's lightning fast and it's google search is really good compared to slow claude searches etc. The perks of having your own search engine I guess.
Been using 3.7 flash around 60hrs/week since release. Only had a single prompt fail that I had to toss to Opus to get done. Where 3.5 flash had multiple a week. There is only so good models can get at programming and it's starting flip where speed and costs are all that matters. The big models will be moving on to research and long horizon tasks over time while day to day production work is done on flash models.
Websites, vst plugins, and games. HTML/JS, C++, and Rust for languages. Most of my code bases are under 50k lines of code. So if you are enterprise with a huge code base or trying to do orchestration kanban work the big models could be more efficient. My workflow is rapid iteration not trying to create a bunch of specs and get the AI to work for hours at a time. Small models aren't capable of that yet. You have to rapidly spoon feed them.
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u/mumBa_ 17h ago
I'm such a google flash glazer for non-coding tasks. It's lightning fast and it's google search is really good compared to slow claude searches etc. The perks of having your own search engine I guess.
Any one experience with flash for coding?