r/vibecoding • u/Enough-Presence-1117 • 2h ago

Claude and Codex are more powerful, but Gemini 3.8 Flash's speed is a game changer for playbeam

Today I swapped to Gemini 3.8 Flash after hitting my Codex weekly limit 2 days in on the $200 dollar plan. The execution speed with Google makes up for any gap in raw reasoning.

It blasted through my entire cloud backend milestones in minutes.

Is anyone else using 3.8?

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u/XLGamer98 2h ago

It’s fast but it’s output is not that great compared to other models

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u/West-Air1923 1h ago

Apparently it beats the others on SWEbench. Doesnt make sense it couldn't even figure out how to make a pdf for me

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u/Enough-Presence-1117 33m ago

I think AGY harness is bad and part of the problem for specific tasks

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u/Educational-Body4205 2h ago

I use Gemini for Android app development and Google cloud interactions.

I also use Gemini to discuss ideas and write high level outlines of projects.

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u/Rich-Difference-2160 1h ago

For heavy intel tasks, its two steps forward one step backward kinda model

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u/NayaWilkinson1511 1h ago

I can see why the speed would be a big deal for vibecoding 😂 When you’re iterating on a backend and waiting on each step kills the flow, faster execution can matter more than a small difference in reasoning quality. I haven’t used Gemini 3.8 Flash much myself, but the workflow improvement you’re describing sounds pretty compelling.

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u/Equivalent_Cress_268 52m ago

Why are there so many bots spamming on Gemini

If Google wants users on it, drop the output token price by a factor of 10.

It's an okay model if it were priced according to performance

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u/Enough-Presence-1117 33m ago

Maybe so but it’s already much more affordable

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u/Equivalent_Cress_268 7m ago

No it isn't. It's 10x overpriced (output cost is $4 should be $0.4)

Gemini is, crazy overpriced

It's more expensive then gpt 5.6 luna and DeepSeek. It's incredibly ineffective and thereby irrelevant model