Gemini Flash 3.8 was heavily optimized for agentic coding. It is not an ignored use case. Flash 3.8 benches extremely well on agentic coding. It was very intentionally made good at coding. So was Argon. It is doing a lot of mission critical porting work for things like Rust. Does Google also build models for things other than coding? Yes. It has a lot of enterprise customers that need good general models too. IDK, I haven't seen anything convincing in Flash 3.8 or Argon that say "Google is ignoring coding" it just took a while to get there since Pro 3.1.
(Disclaimer: I work at teh Goog and spend... a lot of time with these models :)
(Disclaimer: I work at teh Goog and spend... a lot of time with these models :)