We constantly evaluate the major frontier models across all of our workflows, continually assessing when the state of the art has reached a point where there has been a sufficient capability leap to integrate into our systems. We've been exceptionally impressed by the just-released Gemini 3.8 Flash's coding abilities – they represent a huge quality and robustness leap for our specific workflows beyond what we've been able to achieve to date. As one example, this weekend we provided Gemini 3.8 Flash with a few sample JSON records from our BigTable GCS digital twin that records the realtime processing status of the entire Visual Explorer infrastructure and asked it to craft an internal technical status dashboard that show the state of every task for every broadcast. It took just a few seconds to generate the dashboard you see above. In the live version you can actually click on the "{}" beside each status to view a modal with the raw JSON record with full technical details on that task for that item!
Gemini 3.8 Flash wrote the entire codebase for this dashboard, including both the backend and frontend, which we then wrapped inside our infrastructure harness. Impressively, when we gave Gemini additional details on the number of expected records per dashboard, it completely changed its design and crafted an impressively creative and optimal embedding structure to structure loading into a cascading waterfall that allows the visible table to load rapidly while all of the underlying data loads in the background and becomes available in chunks, structuring its loading design on modern browser designs and incorporating a range of advanced HTML and JavaScript design tactics, a few of which we hadn't even thought of.