3.7 did score higher in coding benchmarks but in practice 3.5 is much better at coding. 3.7 ignores instructions and does things you didn't ask it to do.
I prefer Gemini 2.5 pro for all code now
But Gemini is at least as overactive as Claude, sometimes even more overactive when it comes to something like comment spam.
Of course, this can be fixed with prompting. And sometimes it feels sheepish complaining about the machine god doing most of my chore work that didn't even exist a couple years ago.
Like, ask it a simple question and it comes up with a full repo, complete with a README and a Makefile, when all you wanted to know was how efficient a particular algorithm would be in the included code.
Can't wait until the add research to the Pro plan because, you know, I have questions...
If you pay for a subscription then they don’t have an incentive to use more tokens for the same answer.
It’s definitely because feedback from people has “taught” it that more boilerplate is better. It’s the same reason ChatGPT is annoyingly complementary.