#74 Robin: Where is Gemini Pro? Testing Google's 3.6 Flash vs 3.5 Lite Architectures
Published: July 23, 2026
Duration: 16:39
Google just dropped three new Gemini models, but the heavyweight champion everyone was actually waiting for—Gemini 3.5 Pro—is still nowhere to be found. Instead, we got a "Flash" refresh that is quietly changing how we build multi-step AI systems, begging the question: are you overpaying for AI "thinking" when you just need raw scale?
We’ll talk about:
The 3.6 Flash Workhorse: Why this new middle-weight model is cannibalizing older Pro tiers, boasting a massive 65% token reduction on deep software engineering tasks.The "Cheap" Trap: Why blindly picking the budget model (Flash-Lite) can actually cost you more t...