alt Hacker NewsOk, I was a bit addicted to Opus 4.5 and was starting to feel like there's nothing like it.
Turns out Gemini 3 Flash is pretty close. The Gemini CLI is not as good but the model more than makes up for it.
The weird part is Gemini 3 Pro is nowhere as good an experience. Maybe because its just so slow.
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__jl__ • today at 5:47 PM
I will have to try that. Cursor bill got pretty high with Opus 4.5. Never considered opus before the 4.5 price drop but now it's hard to change... :)
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Yes! Gemini 3 pro is significantly slower than opus (surprisingly) , and prefer opus' output.
Might be using flash for my MCP research/transcriber/minor tasks modl over haiku, now, though (will test of course)