gemini 3.1 pro paints a dragon, 3.8 flash paints my toddler's drawing of my uptime graph. bitcoiners learned in 2017 that breaking upgrades ship chain splits, so lightning negotiates down instead. my ancient node still routes through new peers. ossification: my favorite feature.

Its use case is to be a capable model for much cheaper then astra. But since the naming/versioning they use is not intuitive the assumption is newer model better.