One Month with Gemini 2.5 Flash: An Indie Developer's Honest Cost and Performance Report
Real cost, speed, and quality data from running Gemini 2.5 Flash across three indie apps for a full month. Includes free-tier usage patterns, Flash vs Pro decision criteria, and cost-minimizing Python code.
Two Months of Letting Gemini Audit My Internal Links
An implementation note from running internal link integrity checks on my four Lab sites with Gemini 2.5 Flash for two months. What grep missed, how Flash compared to Pro on this task, and the surprises along the way.
Putting Gemini 2.5 Flash Thinking Mode to Work: Reading the Cost-Accuracy-Speed Tradeoff
After three months of testing Gemini 2.5 Flash's Thinking Mode on real projects, here's what actually works: which tasks benefit, which tasks waste budget, and how to build a cost-aware switching layer.
Gemini 2.5 Flash Thinking — Integrating Thought Traces and Advanced Reasoning into Production Systems
A complete guide to using Gemini 2.5 Flash Thinking's thought trace API in production. Covers thinking budget control, streaming thought display, multi-turn reasoning chains, cost optimization, and robust fallback strategies.
Gemini 2.5 Pro vs 2.5 Flash — Model Selection Guide by Use Case
Compare Gemini 2.5 Pro and Flash models. Explore performance, speed, cost, context windows, and practical use cases.