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Ok, 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.





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)

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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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$100 Claude max is the best subscription I’ve ever had.

Well worth every penny now

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Or a $40 GitHub copilot plan also gets you a lot of Opus usage.

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Missing a lot without claude code tho

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