This is my experience too. I usually use Gemini 2.5 Pro through AI Studio for big design ideas that need to be validated and refined. Then take the refined requ

This is my experience too. I usually use Gemini 2.5 Pro through AI Studio for big design ideas that need to be validated and refined. Then take the refined requirements to Claude Code which does an excellent job most of the time in coding them properly. Recently I tried Gemini CLI, and it's not even close to Claude Code's sharp coding skills. It often makes syntax mistakes, and get stuck trying to get itself out of a rut; its output is so verbose (and fast) that it's hard to follow what it's trying to do. Claude Code has a much better debugging capability. Another contender in the "big idea" reasoning camp: DeepSeek R1. It's much slower, but most of the time it can analyze problems and get to the correct solution in one shot.