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Google's launch post for three new Gemini Flash models compared them only to its own older versions, never once to GLM 5.2, DeepSeek, or any other rival lab.

A Brokk founder ran the missing comparison himself in the thread: Gemini 3.6 Flash lands about even with GLM 5.2 on price and intelligence, just roughly 8 times faster.

Engineers who had built products on the cheap Flash-Lite tier said they were already moving workloads to Deepseek and OpenAI, tired of watching each new release cost more than the last.

RTK strips noise from command output before it reaches an LLM, advertising 60-90% savings. The article's core objection: that figure is the percentage of raw command-line text removed, not a cut to your actual API bill, and tool output is often a small slice of a session's tokens.

The thread split hard. One user saved 3k tokens across a 300k-token session; another saved 3.7M of 3.9M and shrugged 'tokens saved are tokens saved.' Then the author named the real trigger: management pushing the tool to cut costs, no accuracy benchmarks anywhere.