I've been using gemini-3-flash the last few days and it is quite good, I'm not sure you need the biggest models anymore. I have only switched to pro once or twice the last few days

Here are the commits, the tasks were not trivial

https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof/commits/_next/

Social posts and pretty pictures as I work on my custom copilot replacement

https://bsky.app/profile/verdverm.com

Depends what you mean by "need", of course, but in my experience the curves aren't bending yet; better model still means better-quality review (although GPT-5.0 high was still a reasonably competent reviewer)!

Yes, it's my new daily driver for light coding and the rest. Also great at object recognition and image gen