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Theo - t3.gg@theo

The cost to performance chart is the most interesting. 3.5 Flash is "more expensive" and "dumber" than gpt-5.5 on medium gpt-5.5-medium: 22m tokens, $1,199, 57 points gemini-3.5-flash: 73m tokens, $1,522, 55 points

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Style: Conversational paragraphs at a steady pace.
Tone: concrete, punchy
Mechanisms: Specificity
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