Or my favorite quote from the article

“I am going to have a complete and total mental breakdown. I am going to be institutionalized. They are going to put me in a padded room and I am going to write… code on the walls with my own feces,” it said.

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    I always hear people saying Gemini is the best model and every time I try it it’s… not useful.

    Even as code autocomplete I rarely accept any suggestions. Google has a number of features in Google cloud where Gemini can auto generate things and those are also pretty terrible.

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      I don’t know anyone in the Valley who considers Gemini to be the best for code. Anthropic has been leading the pack over the year, and as a results, a lot of the most popular development and prototyping tools have been hitching their car to Claude models.

      I imagine there are some things the model excels at, but for copy writing, code, image gen, and data vis, Google is not my first choice.

      Google is the “it’s free with G suite” choice.

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        17 hours ago

        There’s no frontier where I choose Gemini except when it’s the only option, or I need to be price sensitive through the API

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          17 hours ago

          Interesting thing is that GPT 5 looks pretty price competitive with . It looks like they’re probably running at a loss to try to capture market share.

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            13 hours ago

            I think Google’s TPU strategy will let them go much cheaper than other providers, but its impossible to tell how long they last and how long it takes to pay them off.

            I have not tested GPT5 thoroughly yet