I've been using 3.8 Flash a lot and have been having a really nice time using it.

I have not experienced the hallucinations or benchmaxxing people are complaining about. People keep banging on about how the hallucinations are so terrible that it cannot be used for anything etc, yet benchmarks like https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/omniscience#aa-omn... show the top two best models for not hallucinating are Gemini models.

Something does not align with these complaints from people who are trashing the Gemini models - one has to wonder if they just tried it for 5 mins then give up because it doesn't behave exactly like Claude does.

As mentioned I used 3.8 Flash for a lot of things because I don't like working with Claude all day (its generally a sanctimonious prick to work with) and I way prefer working with Gemini's personality. 3.8 Flash seemed to me to be a really decent model for every day run of the mill get-shit-done work. True I have not tried to cure cancer or solve navier-stokes recently, but for your standard day to day coding works its been really solid.

I am excited to try 4 Hydrogen now.