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Is anyone seriously using Gemini daily? How is it compared to other agents you've tried? Do you feel it's a good value prop? What does it excel/fail at?

FactolSarin 2y ago
I already pay for Google One storage, so it's the cheapest of the paid LLMs for me. That's 99% of the reason I use it, and honestly I don't really have any strong opinions on it compared to ChatGPT. It's about the same level, and with new models constantly being released for all the different LLMs I've kind of lost track of what it's particularly good or bad at compared to others. I will say the video with Gemini live is pretty impressive. My family and I tried it a bit yesterday, and my kids wanted to show Gemini all our pets. My kid showed it our cat, picking it up roughly as she is wont to do, and I was impressed when it asked "Is [name of cat] always so patient being handled like that?"
- diggan 2y ago
  > I already pay for Google One storage, so it's the cheapest of the paid LLMs for me. That's 99% of the reason I use it, and honestly I don't really have any strong opinions on it compared to ChatGPT I'm on a ChatGPT pro plan, been using it for a good while but got an offer on Google One storage so tried it out for a month. Google's models are far behind compared to OpenAI's, and seemingly o1 Pro Mode is still the best out there, albeit slow obviously. But probably the model I've got furthest with on difficult problems, and even the "simpler" models from OpenAI are still better than Gemma 2.5. It does seem that Google has better tooling available for their models though, so a combination of the tooling of Google with the models of OpenAI would probably be optimal, but unlikely we'll see that happen.
  - whimsicalism 2y ago
    how long ago? i think 2.5 exp is better than o1 or o3-mini in my experience.
lytedev 2y ago
I'm probably on the wrong side of history and generally think LLMs are way overhyped, but Gemini 2.5 Pro is the first one to consistently impress me for pretty much everything.
Spooky23 2y ago
I use it and ChatGPT. I think they are pretty close. Gemini has gotten a lot better, and I think it’s superior on the deep research side. NotebookLM is incredible. For more general things, ChatGPT is still better imo, but that gap is shrinking, at least for what I do. Their analysis plugin is super useful to me. I will say that it’s hard to evaluate as some of my habits may drive behavior.
makeitdouble 2y ago
Not daily, but a decent amount I think. Image search and text recognition have become way better than Google Lens ever was. In-place translation is also nice, and I use to check idioms, and other grammarly-esque things. I think it's good at language related things and transformations, not great at anything else (I wouldn't ask it to create anything new TBH). I can't even get it reliably spun Google docs from my prompts from the standard web/app interfaces. Similar to FactolSarin, it's baked into my Google account and subscriptions so I don't really need it to be stellar and wouldn't pay for it as a single product.
Workaccount2 2y ago
Up unit 2.5 it was kinda meh, but now it's my daily driver. Still have ChatGPT, but swapped out Anthropic.
mvdtnz 2y ago
You can't upload code files (.java files, build.gradle files, etc) on the web UI, which makes it 100% worthless for my dev flow. I'm not interested in integrating it with my IDE or installing CLI tools, I want to just upload relevant code and get results.
- gundmc 2y ago
  Try using the interface via ai.dev instead of gemini.google.com. I upload code files all the time and it works.
phonon 2y ago
Gemini 2.5 Pro is very competitive with o1/o1-pro in reasoning and has a larger maximum context. It also just rolled out Deep Research which is also very competitive (perhaps even better) than Open AI's.
- bearjaws 2y ago
  I'd argue that 2.5 pro is better because it doesn't suffer from GPT-isms, where its blatantly obvious someone used ChatGPT.
  - CamperBob2 2y ago
    It's also much, much faster than o1-pro. That feels like a bigger win every time I use it.
kristopolous 2y ago
I use it in coding. It's pretty good.
theblazehen 2y ago
I find it's a great complement to Sonnet 3.7 in agentic programming workflows, the extended context is amazing, and it can often solve issues that Sonnet 3.7 can't handle (and vice-versa)
PunchTornado 2y ago
I use it daily, even started planning trips, explaining stuff, coding. Easily the best ai out there, then claude and then deepseek.

FactolSarin 2y ago

I already pay for Google One storage, so it's the cheapest of the paid LLMs for me. That's 99% of the reason I use it, and honestly I don't really have any strong opinions on it compared to ChatGPT. It's about the same level, and with new models constantly being released for all the different LLMs I've kind of lost track of what it's particularly good or bad at compared to others. I will say the video with Gemini live is pretty impressive. My family and I tried it a bit yesterday, and my kids wanted to show Gemini all our pets. My kid showed it our cat, picking it up roughly as she is wont to do, and I was impressed when it asked "Is [name of cat] always so patient being handled like that?"

diggan 2y ago
> I already pay for Google One storage, so it's the cheapest of the paid LLMs for me. That's 99% of the reason I use it, and honestly I don't really have any strong opinions on it compared to ChatGPT I'm on a ChatGPT pro plan, been using it for a good while but got an offer on Google One storage so tried it out for a month. Google's models are far behind compared to OpenAI's, and seemingly o1 Pro Mode is still the best out there, albeit slow obviously. But probably the model I've got furthest with on difficult problems, and even the "simpler" models from OpenAI are still better than Gemma 2.5. It does seem that Google has better tooling available for their models though, so a combination of the tooling of Google with the models of OpenAI would probably be optimal, but unlikely we'll see that happen.
- whimsicalism 2y ago
  how long ago? i think 2.5 exp is better than o1 or o3-mini in my experience.

lytedev 2y ago

I'm probably on the wrong side of history and generally think LLMs are way overhyped, but Gemini 2.5 Pro is the first one to consistently impress me for pretty much everything.

Spooky23 2y ago

I use it and ChatGPT. I think they are pretty close. Gemini has gotten a lot better, and I think it’s superior on the deep research side. NotebookLM is incredible. For more general things, ChatGPT is still better imo, but that gap is shrinking, at least for what I do. Their analysis plugin is super useful to me. I will say that it’s hard to evaluate as some of my habits may drive behavior.

makeitdouble 2y ago

Not daily, but a decent amount I think. Image search and text recognition have become way better than Google Lens ever was. In-place translation is also nice, and I use to check idioms, and other grammarly-esque things. I think it's good at language related things and transformations, not great at anything else (I wouldn't ask it to create anything new TBH). I can't even get it reliably spun Google docs from my prompts from the standard web/app interfaces. Similar to FactolSarin, it's baked into my Google account and subscriptions so I don't really need it to be stellar and wouldn't pay for it as a single product.

Workaccount2 2y ago

Up unit 2.5 it was kinda meh, but now it's my daily driver. Still have ChatGPT, but swapped out Anthropic.

mvdtnz 2y ago

You can't upload code files (.java files, build.gradle files, etc) on the web UI, which makes it 100% worthless for my dev flow. I'm not interested in integrating it with my IDE or installing CLI tools, I want to just upload relevant code and get results.

gundmc 2y ago
Try using the interface via ai.dev instead of gemini.google.com. I upload code files all the time and it works.

phonon 2y ago

Gemini 2.5 Pro is very competitive with o1/o1-pro in reasoning and has a larger maximum context. It also just rolled out Deep Research which is also very competitive (perhaps even better) than Open AI's.

bearjaws 2y ago
I'd argue that 2.5 pro is better because it doesn't suffer from GPT-isms, where its blatantly obvious someone used ChatGPT.
- CamperBob2 2y ago
  It's also much, much faster than o1-pro. That feels like a bigger win every time I use it.

kristopolous 2y ago

I use it in coding. It's pretty good.

theblazehen 2y ago

I find it's a great complement to Sonnet 3.7 in agentic programming workflows, the extended context is amazing, and it can often solve issues that Sonnet 3.7 can't handle (and vice-versa)

PunchTornado 2y ago

I use it daily, even started planning trips, explaining stuff, coding. Easily the best ai out there, then claude and then deepseek.