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Claude has been left in the dust by Gemini with its million token session and ability to upload a zip file of my entire code base.

barefootford 1y ago
and then get the honor of copy and pasting all of the changes afterward?
- andrewstuart 1y ago
  “Make me a bash script which creates all the files using heredoc” Works for a reasonable chunk of files say 5 to 10 that aren’t too big. No doubt they’ll get to better file access. Anyhow I’m quite happy to do the copy and paste because Geminis coding and debugging capability is far better than Claude.
- danenania 1y ago
  You can try my project Plandex[1] to use Gemini in a way that's comparable to Claude Code without copy-pasting. By default, it combines models from the major providers—Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google. The default planning/coding models are still Sonnet 3.7 for context size under 200k, but you can switch to Gemini with `\set-model gemini-preview`. 1 - https://github.com/plandex-ai/plandex https://github.com/plandex-ai/plandex
- dimitri-vs 1y ago
  Cursor with gemini-2.5 MAX and agentic mode. I really like the idea of Claude Code but its rare that I fully spec out a feature on my first request and I can't see how it can be used for frontend features that require a lot of browser-centric iteration/debugging to get right.
- termin3 1y ago
  I'm using this https://github.com/coffeegrind123/gemini-code https://github.com/coffeegrind123/gemini-code to use Claude Code with Gemini and it's working perfectly
mickeyp 1y ago
I'm building a browser based tool that runs on your computer, with full tool access of course, that works with all the major models and is far better and more ergonomic to use than code, codex, etc. If you (or anyone else reading this) wants to try out the upcoming beta give me a ping. (see profile.)
Sajarin 1y ago
I wonder if anyone has done an analysis on the HN user sentiment on the varying AI models over time. I'd be curious to see what that looks like. Increasingly, I'm seeing more and more people talk positively about Gemini and Google (and having used Gemini recently, I align with that sentiment) I think Bard (lol) and Gemini got a late start and so lots of folks dismissed it but I feel like they've fully caught up. Definitely excited to see what Gemini 3 vs GPT-5 vs Claude 4 looks like!
- Karrot_Kream 1y ago
  Gemini hit the top of a bunch of leaderboards recently so it probably prompted folks to try Gemini out and they found it useful.
- fallinditch 1y ago
  I'm using Windsurf IDE so have all the main models available. Mainly doing Python, JS, HTML, CSS, some Go. I have found Claude 3.7 outperforms Gemini 2.5 and ChatGPT 4.1, 4o, Deepseek, etc, for my work in most cases. I suspect that I experience some performance throttling with Gemini 2.5 in my Windsurf setup because it's just not as good as anecdotal reports by others, and benchmarks. I also seem to run up against a kind of LLM laziness sometimes when they seemingly can't be bothered to answer a challenging prompt ... a consequence of load balancing in action perhaps.
  - lcfcjs6 1y ago
    Windsurf is about to lose its ability to use other models since it got bought by OpenAI. Still very cool tool though!
- mbesto 1y ago
  Who cares about sentiment when you can just look at a proxy for usage: https://openrouter.ai/rankings https://openrouter.ai/rankings EDIT: Specifically: https://openrouter.ai/rankings/programming?view=week https://openrouter.ai/rankings/programming?view=week
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ChadMoran 1y ago
Context is only one part of it. I tried using Gemini and got sub par results. comment-laden code with not not following instructions.
simonw 1y ago
How are you uploading zip files of code to Gemini?
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- andrewstuart 1y ago
  In AI Studio select file upload then select a zip file.
cube2222 1y ago
I’ve tried Gemini 2.5 Pro a couple of times and honestly don’t like its output. Claude Sonnet 3.7 is much better at correctly understanding and executing my imprecise prompts. Gemini 2.5 Flash on the other hand has excellent. I’ve started using it to rewrite whole files after talking the changes through with Claude, because it’s just so ridiculously fast (and dependable enough for applying already outlined changes).
ramoz 1y ago
This is Claude Code. The two work really well with Gemini as a planner and Claude Code as an executor.
dgellow 1y ago
claude code still has the best UX IMHO. But I would love to have the million token context, for sure
andy12_ 1y ago
I can't say that I don't love Gemini. I use it a lot, and the huge context window does help. But I can also say that I much prefer how Claude writes code.

barefootford 1y ago

and then get the honor of copy and pasting all of the changes afterward?

andrewstuart 1y ago
“Make me a bash script which creates all the files using heredoc” Works for a reasonable chunk of files say 5 to 10 that aren’t too big. No doubt they’ll get to better file access. Anyhow I’m quite happy to do the copy and paste because Geminis coding and debugging capability is far better than Claude.
danenania 1y ago
You can try my project Plandex[1] to use Gemini in a way that's comparable to Claude Code without copy-pasting. By default, it combines models from the major providers—Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google. The default planning/coding models are still Sonnet 3.7 for context size under 200k, but you can switch to Gemini with `\set-model gemini-preview`. 1 - https://github.com/plandex-ai/plandex https://github.com/plandex-ai/plandex
dimitri-vs 1y ago
Cursor with gemini-2.5 MAX and agentic mode. I really like the idea of Claude Code but its rare that I fully spec out a feature on my first request and I can't see how it can be used for frontend features that require a lot of browser-centric iteration/debugging to get right.
termin3 1y ago
I'm using this https://github.com/coffeegrind123/gemini-code https://github.com/coffeegrind123/gemini-code to use Claude Code with Gemini and it's working perfectly

mickeyp 1y ago

I'm building a browser based tool that runs on your computer, with full tool access of course, that works with all the major models and is far better and more ergonomic to use than code, codex, etc. If you (or anyone else reading this) wants to try out the upcoming beta give me a ping. (see profile.)

Sajarin 1y ago

I wonder if anyone has done an analysis on the HN user sentiment on the varying AI models over time. I'd be curious to see what that looks like. Increasingly, I'm seeing more and more people talk positively about Gemini and Google (and having used Gemini recently, I align with that sentiment) I think Bard (lol) and Gemini got a late start and so lots of folks dismissed it but I feel like they've fully caught up. Definitely excited to see what Gemini 3 vs GPT-5 vs Claude 4 looks like!

Karrot_Kream 1y ago
Gemini hit the top of a bunch of leaderboards recently so it probably prompted folks to try Gemini out and they found it useful.
fallinditch 1y ago
I'm using Windsurf IDE so have all the main models available. Mainly doing Python, JS, HTML, CSS, some Go. I have found Claude 3.7 outperforms Gemini 2.5 and ChatGPT 4.1, 4o, Deepseek, etc, for my work in most cases. I suspect that I experience some performance throttling with Gemini 2.5 in my Windsurf setup because it's just not as good as anecdotal reports by others, and benchmarks. I also seem to run up against a kind of LLM laziness sometimes when they seemingly can't be bothered to answer a challenging prompt ... a consequence of load balancing in action perhaps.
- lcfcjs6 1y ago
  Windsurf is about to lose its ability to use other models since it got bought by OpenAI. Still very cool tool though!
mbesto 1y ago
Who cares about sentiment when you can just look at a proxy for usage: https://openrouter.ai/rankings https://openrouter.ai/rankings EDIT: Specifically: https://openrouter.ai/rankings/programming?view=week https://openrouter.ai/rankings/programming?view=week

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ChadMoran 1y ago

Context is only one part of it. I tried using Gemini and got sub par results. comment-laden code with not not following instructions.

simonw 1y ago

How are you uploading zip files of code to Gemini?

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andrewstuart 1y ago
In AI Studio select file upload then select a zip file.

cube2222 1y ago

I’ve tried Gemini 2.5 Pro a couple of times and honestly don’t like its output. Claude Sonnet 3.7 is much better at correctly understanding and executing my imprecise prompts. Gemini 2.5 Flash on the other hand has excellent. I’ve started using it to rewrite whole files after talking the changes through with Claude, because it’s just so ridiculously fast (and dependable enough for applying already outlined changes).

ramoz 1y ago

This is Claude Code. The two work really well with Gemini as a planner and Claude Code as an executor.

dgellow 1y ago

claude code still has the best UX IMHO. But I would love to have the million token context, for sure

andy12_ 1y ago

I can't say that I don't love Gemini. I use it a lot, and the huge context window does help. But I can also say that I much prefer how Claude writes code.