Gemini 3.1 Flash Light: Who Is This For?

Google quietly launched Gemini 3.1 Flash Light. I like I the naming of products is is crazy. I just don't understand it. Command AI is their super super fast model. I don't know what I'd be using this for to be honest. I think Google are great as an everyday model. I've always thought that. I guess this might be quite good for openclaw to be honest. Something fast, something that you just need to get stuff done. um cost effective. 25 in, $130 out. Uh I don't know what the difference is between flash and flash light. Maybe it's maybe it's something that can run on something super uh small like a phone. Um don't really know, but it's here. Adaptive intelligence at scale for developers. How crazy is this? Why why are they talking about developers? This is crazy. I would I wouldn't even use their pro model for development. So 3.1 flashlight can tackle tasks at scale like high volume translation and content moderation where cost is a priority. So, I guess you're you're sacrificing maybe intelligence and maybe some accuracy at the the price like cuz there are some things like translation to be honest where it's so easy for it to do. You don't need it to think it's all baked into the data. You don't need skills. You don't need to do any of that. Maybe it's good for this sort of stuff. Google Google's still chugging away there, you know. But yeah, I tell you what, though. I have been using and and it comes into me using Claude um uh co-work and things like this. I'm I've been I think I've been underplaying and and under um appreciating Claude as a conversational uh model. I think it's really good at asking questions and being quite meticulous with its responses. What I've really enjoyed as well is that I used to use nan to write my LinkedIn posts based on our conversations of this the show. I take the transcript and I build posts out from them. I've now built a Claude skill from it. So I run it on Claude code or Claude co-work doesn't matter. And I've been really impressed with how it's actually taken, sorry, it's taken what we've actually said and and and and brought that into the writing. Now, it might seem a bit dumb that it's kind of done that. It's been quite but it's but that's what I want from these posts. I don't want it to fluff up what it's been saying, you know? It's almost like um Gemini because that Gemini, sorry, I should have said Gemini is what's I've bound to the NA workflow. I could I could use um uh uh Claude, but I want to make the most of my subscription, right? It's cheaper. So, um but yeah, I want it, but it seems like Gemini wants to kind of fluff up what it's saying. It's just it's it's being too it's too intelligent, if that makes sense. is saying too many words whereas Claude seems to be to the point with those posts and then as I say generally um I launched a service called shipfast which I'll make a video on and and talk about that whole process which is uh me offering up to build AI products and things like that and I discussed through Claude what it should be called what how it should be priced and um the the considerations about the target market and stuff like that and it was just really good as a conversational AI to to help bring that to life. So, um maybe I said to you, but I'm I am considering buying the the $200 a month plan because I'm just using for absolutely everything. I kind of really really enjoy Claude as a model. Obviously, I want to give 5.4 a go run for its money, but um see what codeex is like and uh sorry, Jupyter 5.4 for um like the chat is like and things like that. Uh because people are saying it's very very good, but yeah, I'm I'm I've sort of always not really thought of Claude as anything other than good for code, but I I personally have been mistaken. This is part of a larger conversation on my show, Command AI, which we stream live every single week. We discuss the news and all things related to AI in the world of design and web. Catch us next week and join in the banter. Command AI.