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vscode + cline extension + gemini2.0 is pretty awesome. Highly recommend checking out cline. it quickly became one of my favorite coding tools.

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Gemini 2.0 isn't particularly great at coding. The Gemini 1206 preview that was released just before 2.0 is quite good, though. Still, it hasn't taken the crown from Claude 3.5 Sonnet (which appears to now be tied with o1). Very much agree about Cline + VSCode, BTW. My preferred models with Cline are 3.5 Sonnet and 3.5 Haiku. I can throw the more complex problems at Sonnet and use Haiku for everything else.

https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards/edit.html

the context limits on google are nuts! Being able to pump 2 million tokens in and having it cost $0 is pretty crazy rn. Cline makes it seamless to switch between APIs and isnt trying to shoehorn their SAAS AI into a custom vscode (looking at you cursor)

>the context limits on google are nuts! Being able to pump 2 million tokens in and having it cost $0 is pretty crazy rn.

What's the catch though? I was looking at Gemini recently and it seemed too good to be true.

Google inference is a lot cheaper since they have their own hardware so they don't have to pay licensing to NVIDIA, thus their free tier can give you much more than others.

Other than that the catch is like all other free tiers, it is marketing and can be withdrawn at any moment to get you to pay after you are used to their product.

Your code becomes training data[0]:

> When you use Unpaid Services, including, for example, Google AI Studio and the unpaid quota on Gemini API, Google uses the content you submit to the Services and any generated responses to provide, improve, and develop Google products and services and machine learning technologies, including Google's enterprise features, products, and services, consistent with our Privacy Policy.

[0] https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/terms

In the wake of the o1 release, and with the old aider benchmark saturating, Paul from aider has created a new, much harder benchmark. o1 dominates by a substantial margin.

https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards/ https://aider.chat/2024/12/21/polyglot.html

I will check it out. The number of new tools is staggering.

I enjoy image and video generation and I have a 4090 and ComfyUI; I can't keep up with everything coming out anymore.

If you're a offline kind of guy, try LM Studio + Cline :)

/not affiliated with cline, just a happy user

If you're interested in the latest tools for coding, join this subreddit and you'll always be on top of it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPTCoding/

There are a lot of tools, but only a small pool of tools that are worth checking out. Cline, Continue, Windsurf, CoPilot, Cursor, and Aider are the ones that come to mind.

"ChatGPT" Coding... is it impartial? the name sorta sounds biased.

ChatGPT was the first to come along, so the subreddit was given a perhaps short-sighted name. It's now about coding with LLMs in general.

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