How to make your AI Agent 111x cheaper and 2.5x faster at data aggregation

Google recently released an incredibly fast new model — Gemini 3.5 Flash. As someone building infrastructure for autonomous agents, I decided to put it through a rigorous crash test on a real-world data aggregation task to see how it handles massive context loads. The Benchmark Task The challenge was simple, but computationally heavy. I fed the model a massive JSON array containing 208 user objects and gave it the following prompt: "Extract the users, find those who are over 30 years old and...