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On average, to answer the same question, 3.5 is spending 10x more on SQL queries vs gemini-3-flash-preview
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spending 10x more on SQL queries
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Got in the way: Degenerate query patterns hitting budget limits.
… I have a SQL agent and my tests with 3.5 are resulting in hitting query budget limits that have never been hit before. On average, to answer the same question, 3.5 is spending 10x more on SQL queries vs gemini-3-flash-preview. The query patterns can be extremely degenerate too. …