New LLM release from Google Gemini: Gemini 2.5 Flash (preview), which lets you set a budget for how many "thinking" tokens it can use. I got it to draw me some pelicans - it has very good taste in SVG styles and comments.
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/17/start-building-with-gemini-25-flash/
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