Tuesday, 19th May 2026
The last six months in LLMs in five minutes
I put together these annotated slides from my five minute lightning talk at PyCon US 2026, using the latest iteration of my annotated presentation tool.
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- Fix for bug where
llm_prompt_context()hook did not fully collect chains of responses. #7
- Compatible with
llm>=0.32a0alpha - adds the ability to stream reasoning tokens.
- Fixed bug tracking chains of responses. Refs datasette-llm#7
Gemini 3.5 Flash: more expensive, but Google plan to use it for everything
Today at Google I/O, Google released Gemini 3.5 Flash. This one skipped the -preview modifier and went straight to general availability, and Google appear to be using it for a whole lot of their key products:
- New model
gemini-3.5-flashfor Gemini 3.5 Flash.
See also my notes on Gemini 3.5 Flash, and the pelican I drew using this upgrade to the plugin.