I've been using gemini-3-flash the last few days and it is quite good, I'm not sure you need the biggest models anymore. I have only switched to pro once or twice the last few days
Here are the commits, the tasks were not trivial
https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof/commits/_next/
Social posts and pretty pictures as I work on my custom copilot replacement
Yes, it's my new daily driver for light coding and the rest. Also great at object recognition and image gen
Depends what you mean by "need", of course, but in my experience the curves aren't bending yet; better model still means better-quality review (although GPT-5.0 high was still a reasonably competent reviewer)!