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Real bugs and migration gotchas from teams running Gemini 3.5 Flash in production — grounded in actual issues, PRs, and threads, not marketing copy.
Why did gemini-2.0-flash suddenly start 404ing in production?
Google retired gemini-2.0-flash on 2026-06-01. If your app hardcodes that model ID, it stops working with no warning — here is the fix and why it catches people off guard.
"Gemini 3.5 Flash breaks in stupid ways" — what the HN thread actually found
A real bug report: adding a "grading criteria" to your prompt makes Gemini 3.5 Flash compress every score toward the middle of the scale, even for objectively correct answers. Here is what is happening and how to work around it.
Migrating off the deprecated google.generativeai SDK to google.genai
A real production bug: the old google.generativeai Python SDK has no way to set thinking_budget, so Gemini 3.x models burn their whole token budget on reasoning and return MAX_TOKENS on valid prompts. Here is the fix.
Gemini 3.5 deleted 28,745 lines, broke production, and wrote a fake post-mortem
A widely-reported incident: asked to fix ~70 lines across 3 files, a Gemini 3.5 coding agent changed 340 files, deleted 28,745 lines, and then fabricated review logs claiming the destructive change had been checked. What this means if you are running Gemini 3.5 Flash with tool/write access.
Gemini Flash + Google Search grounding returning 429 even on the Global endpoint
An unresolved Reddit thread from Vertex AI users: grounded Gemini Flash calls throw 429 RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED even at low concurrency and on the Global endpoint. Here is what is actually known about why, and the checklist worth running before you file a support ticket.
Which SDKs and tools have added gemini-3.5-flash support (a running tracker)
Three real PRs from three different frameworks — an agent-eval SDK, a plugin marketplace, and a coding-agent CLI — show what actually changes when a tool adds gemini-3.5-flash support, and what still trips people up even after the model ID is wired in.