caught a deprecated model shutdown 6 days before deploy. the model name in my codebase was hallucinated. it never existed
gemini-3.6-flash. that was the model name sitting in my gateway.py. not gemini-3.5-flash, not gemini-3.1-flash-lite - a completely made up string that would have returned errors the moment I pushed to production. October 16th shutdown deadline for the whole model family, six days out, and I’m stari…
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