#97 Robin: Google's $0.75 Coding Miracle? Why Gemini 3.8 Flash Just Triggered an API Price War
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Google finally woke up. After months of getting bruised by Anthropic and OpenAI in the developer space, they just dropped Gemini 3.8 Flash—a model that isn't trying to be the absolute smartest in the room, but is so absurdly cheap it might break the agentic market anyway.
We’ll talk about:
The $0.75 Token Disruption: Why Gemini 3.8 Flash’s aggressive pricing changes the math for running deep AI coding agents without burning through your startup's runway.
The "Spiky" Benchmark Anomaly: How…
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