The example prompt for Google's new Gemini Flash TTS text-to-speed model is a lot https://
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mini-31-flash-tts/
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Google Gemini Flash TTS Model Demonstrates Advanced Text-to-Speech
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Company Security Message Raises Trust Concerns Among Users
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I'm certain this isn't the message they intended to present, but this comes across to me as a company saying "we no longer trust in our own ability to keep your data secure" https://t.co/WtQRxvaAxr
— Simon Willison (@simonw) 15 avril 2026I'm certain this isn't the message they intended to present, but this comes across to me as a company saying "we no longer trust in our own ability to keep your data secure"
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Open Source Libraries Security Value Against Exploits
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Open Source Value Rises as LLM Software Locking Costs Increase
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Mastering Multi-Project Management Takes Consistent Practice
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Yes, definitely – takes quite a bit of practice to be comfortable jumping between 2-3 projects at once
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Time Investment Decision Making Trade-off Analysis
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Previously I would have made a tradeoff decision on whether the minor improvement was worth ~30+ minutes of my time and often decided that it wasn't
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Using coding agents for tedious refactoring improvements
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I'm getting better quality code because if I spot a tedious minor improvement – a slight readability tweak that needs me to update code in 20+ places – I tell the coding agent to do it, costs me nothing
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Comparing 26B A4B and 31B Model Performance
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Have you tried the 26B A4B one? I've been impressed by it, I've not compared it to the 31B yet though
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Bay Area City’s Culinary Diversity: Vietnamese, Mexican, Somali, and Pho
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"… they know it as the city of Vietnamese malls and Mexican flea market taco stands — and home of the Bay Area’s most delicious Somali food, its most exceptional pho, its most decadent torta."
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San Jose Food Scene Series Transforms Culinary Perspective
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My opinion of San Jose was greatly improved by this wonderful series about the food scene there