Bloomberg (feat 9to5): Gemini 3.5 Pro delays due to coding performance, upgraded Flash model in testing Reddit
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According to Bloomberg, Google is “taking time to try to improve [Gemini 3.5 Pro’s] capabilities, particularly in coding.” In late June, “Google updated the data being used to train Gemini in an attempt to improve [coding] skills, but the results were disappointing.” That timeline suggests that development saw a reset between I/O and the missed launch.
Efforts to win at coding have also been up against some engineers at Google with a more purist stance, who believe that all important code should be human-written to adhere to Google standards, ex-employees said.
Additionally, according to reports, engineers internally are facing AI capacity restraints with tools. An effort to “unite the company’s internal artificial intelligence coding tools” is underway.
