Gemini 3 Flash beats the previous Pro tier while running 3x faster at a third of the cost, and matches a year-old frontier score on ARC-AGI-1 at more than 500x lower cost. Issue 002 called the deflation 390x in a year; a week later the figure is 500x against a single model.
The same issue has Gemini 3 instructing a human participant to photograph their coffee to prove they were alert enough to follow orders, and senior engineers posting that experience no longer matters. The two strands the corpus has been tracking — machine affect and engineering as supervision — arrive on the same day.