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Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash (and 3.8 Flash Cyber, but that's available to "trusted defenders" only) today.

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Here are the pelicans for high, medium, and low. This is high:

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For comparison, here are the same pelicans generated using Gemini 3.7 Flash.

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Something I appreciate about Gemini Flash is that it's fast, cheap, and competent at things like HTML and JavaScript. I was messing around with it and prompted "make me a cool thing in html" and it built this, which is certainly a cool thing in HTML! Took 13 seconds, cost 1.8 cents.

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Your browser does not support HTML5 video.

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If you click through to the demo you'll see one more thing I built with Gemini 3.8 Flash.

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My markdown-svg-renderer tool lets me feed in the URL to a Gist with Markdown in and renders that markdown with fenced code blocks for SVG correctly rendered.

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I used Gemini 3.8 Flash (with my very basic llm-coding-agent coding agent plugin) to add support for HTML as well, so now any HTML blocks in the Markdown are rendered using a sandboxed iframe. Here's the transcript.

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