IDEAS, DECISIONS & LESSONS
Notes on AI, architecture and building useful products.
13 articles
17 Sep 2026 · 4 min read
ai
Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber hits 86.2% on CyberGym, beating Mythos 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol, and Chrome's security team says it produces 2.6x more correct patches than larger commercial models. I looked at what a purpose-built security model actually changes for teams wiring AI into AppSec workflows.
Read more03 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
ai
Google split Gemini 3.8 Flash into a general workhorse and a gated Cyber variant that finds vulnerabilities and writes patches autonomously. A Tech Lead's take on what changes when the same model does discovery and remediation — and why the patch review step just became your real bottleneck.
Read more11 Jun 2026 · 7 min read
agentic
Google's I/O 2026 announcements mark a shift from conversational AI to autonomous agentic systems. DiffusionGemma delivers 4x faster text generation. Gemma 4 broadens the open-weights ecosystem. And the new developer APIs signal where Google is pushing the industry next.
Read more10 Jun 2026 · 5 min read
ai
Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash hit general availability with 4x faster inference than competing frontier models, a 1M token context window, and $1.50/$9 pricing. It outperforms Gemini 3.1 Pro on coding and agentic benchmarks. Here's the honest assessment of what this means.
Read more03 Apr 2026 · 6 min read
2026
Alibaba just released its third proprietary model in days. Google's Gemini Flash-Lite costs $0.25 per million tokens. NVIDIA's Nemotron runs 2.2x faster than GPT-OSS-120B. The LLM cost war has arrived — here's what it means for architects choosing AI infrastructure in 2026.
Read more31 Mar 2026 · 5 min read
ai
Apple just committed $1 billion per year to run Google Gemini inside Siri. As a Technical Lead who builds on Apple's platform, here's what I think this means beyond the headlines — privacy tradeoffs, WWDC expectations, and what APIs you should be watching.
Read more29 Mar 2026 · 5 min read
ai
Google just made Gemini Code Assist free and priced Flash-Lite at $0.25/M tokens. After 15 years building production systems, here's what this cost collapse really changes about how we build.
Read more27 Mar 2026 · 5 min read
ai
Deep dive into Gemini 3.1 Pro's practical developer features — 77.1% ARC-AGI-2, dynamic thinking API, 1M token context, and what these benchmarks actually mean when building production AI systems.
Read more26 Mar 2026 · 6 min read
ai
Beyond benchmarks — a real comparison of DeepSeek V3.2 and Gemini 3 Pro for production developer workflows. Cost, code quality, context window, multimodal capabilities, and when to use which.
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