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Flint vs Gemini 3.8 Flash

6 prompts both ran·Specs and numbers·Change models

Flint took 10 min 5 s and was free at list price, Gemini 3.8 Flash took 8 min 33 s and $0.32 at list price. Flint took 1.2× as long.

Flint

Recursive · free route · 36 HN pts

Gemini 3.8 Flash

Google · $4.13/M out · 1,293 HN pts

Pelican

Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle

Flint's SVG for the "Pelican riding a bicycle" prompt

Flint

43 sfree5.6k tokensAPI
Gemini 3.8 Flash's SVG for the "Pelican riding a bicycle" prompt

Gemini 3.8 Flash

89 s$0.06115k tokensAPI

Watch

Draw a mechanical wristwatch that shows the current local time, with a sweeping seconds hand and a date window. Make it look expensive.

Still of Flint's page for the "Wristwatch that shows the current time" prompt

Flint

2 min 11 sfree18k tokensAPI
Still of Gemini 3.8 Flash's page for the "Wristwatch that shows the current time" prompt

Gemini 3.8 Flash

84 s$0.04611k tokensAPI

Landing

Build the landing page for Lumen Cycles, a Copenhagen workshop that builds custom cargo bikes to order. Make it look like a real brand you would trust with 4,000 euros.

Still of Flint's page for the "Landing page for a cargo bike workshop" prompt

Flint

2 min 52 sfree22k tokensAPI
Still of Gemini 3.8 Flash's page for the "Landing page for a cargo bike workshop" prompt

Gemini 3.8 Flash

2 min 57 s$0.1229k tokensAPI

Breakout

Make a Breakout game I can play right now with the keyboard or the mouse. Give it several levels, a score and some juice.

Still of Flint's page for the "Playable Breakout" prompt

Flint

2 min 19 sfree18k tokensAPI
Still of Gemini 3.8 Flash's page for the "Playable Breakout" prompt

Gemini 3.8 Flash

81 s$0.05714k tokensAPI

Design a logo for Night Heron, an independent bookshop that only opens after dark.

Flint's SVG for the "Bookshop logo" prompt

Flint

1 min 47 sfree13k tokensAPI
Gemini 3.8 Flash's SVG for the "Bookshop logo" prompt

Gemini 3.8 Flash

70 s$0.0368.8k tokensAPI

About

Write the opening of the About us page for Patchbay, a three-person studio in Rotterdam that repairs vintage synthesizers. About 150 words.

Patchbay began in a small, cluttered workshop in Rotterdam, where solder smoke and old capacitors seem to belong together. We are a three-person studio, which means every synthesizer that comes through our door is handled by one of the same people who started the project. No call center, no hand-off to strangers. We repair vintage synthesizers: the dusty analog beasts, the rare oddities, the ones with missing knobs and mysterious tuning drift. Our work is part electronics, part archaeology, part stubborn love. We listen to the hum before we open the case, and we believe most vintage synths are not dead, just waiting for someone to pay attention. In a city known for moving quickly, we prefer taking our time. Patchbay exists to keep old voices alive, one oscillator, filter, and power supply at a time. If you have a synth that sings, whispers, or hums through the decades, we would be glad to meet it.

Flint

13 sfree1.5k tokensAPI

Tucked away in Rotterdam, Patchbay is a three-person repair studio dedicated to the preservation and revival of vintage synthesizers. We believe that classic instruments are living machines rather than museum relics—tools built to inspire, create, and be played loud. Between the three of us, we combine decades of experience in electronics engineering, sound design, and meticulous craftsmanship. Whether tracking down elusive voice chips for an eighties polyphonic giant, rebuilding power supplies, or recalibrating the drift on a cantankerous monophonic circuit from the seventies, we treat every piece of gear with obsessive attention to detail. Our workbench is built on a deep respect for historical engineering and a refusal to cut corners. For musicians, producers, and collectors across the Netherlands and beyond, Patchbay is where forgotten circuits find their current again, keeping the tactile soul of analog synthesis alive and resonant.

Gemini 3.8 Flash

13 s$0.003811 tokensAPI

Specs and numbers

FlintGemini 3.8 Flash
MakerRecursiveGoogle
Made inUSUS
Released21 Oct 20262 Sep 2026
Price in, per M tokensfree route (list $0/M)$0.825
Price out, per M tokensfree route (list $0/M)$4.13
Context262,144 tokens1,048,576 tokens
Weightsopenclosed
Hacker News points361,293
Time for the six prompts10 min 5 s8 min 33 s
List price of the six promptsfree$0.32

Flint was free at list price; Gemini 3.8 Flash cost $0.32. Gemini 3.8 Flash was faster: 1 min 32 s less in total, and faster on 4 of the 6 prompts.

In the recording, Flint's Breakout game loads but doesn't start; Gemini 3.8 Flash's plays.

Tea Garden experiment: Flint's game passed 5 of 5 checks; Gemini 3.8 Flash was not in it.

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