Google is absolutely running away with it. The greatest trick they ever pulled was letting people think they were behind.
Any time I upload an attachment, it just fails with something vague like "couldn't process file". Whether that's a simple .MD or .txt with less than 100 lines or a PDF. I tried making a gem today. It just wouldn't let me save it, with some vague error too.
I also tried having it read and write stuff to "my stuff" and Google drive. But it would consistently write but not be able to read from it again. Or would read one file from Google drive and ignore everything else.
Their models are seriously impressive. But as usual Google sucks at making them work well in real products.
Context window blowouts? All the time, but never document upload failures.
This is the company that made Android, and it can't make an Android app that fetches a response from a server. Astonishing.
Google is great at some things, but this isn't it.
The models feel terrible, somehow, like they're being fed terrible system prompts.
Plus the damn thing kept crashing and asking me to "restart it". What?!
At least Kiro does what it says on the tin.
It is windsurf isn't it, why would you expect it to be different?
I've recently tried a buuuuunch of stuff (including Antigravity and Kiro) and I really, really, could not stomach Antigravity.
When the (generous!) Claude credits dry up functionality stops however. Gemini is as useless in Antigravity as everywhere else.
It took me however a week to ditch Gemini 3 as a user. The hallucinations were off the charts compared to GPT-5. I've never even bothered with their CLI offering.
It is also one of the worst models to have a sort of ongoing conversation with.
Also because of the long context window (1 mil tokens on thinking and pro! Claude and OpenAI only have 128k) deep research is the best
That being said, for coding I definitely still use Codex with GPT 5.3 XHigh lol
Not a single person is using it for coding (outside of Google itself).
Maybe some people on a very generous free plan.
Their model is a fine mid 2025 model, backed by enormous compute resources and an army of GDM engineers to help the “researchers” keep the model on task as it traverses the “tree of thoughts”.
But that isn’t “the model” that’s an old model backed by massive money.
Come on.
Worthless.
Do you have any market counter points.
Market counter points that aren't really just a repackaging of:
1. "Google has the world's best distribution" and/or
2. "Google has a firehose of money that allows them to sell their 'AI product' at an enormous discount?
Tool calling failures, hallucinations, bad code output. It felt like using a coding model from a year ago.
Even just as a general use model, somehow ChatGPT has a smoother integration with web search (than google!!), knowing when to use it, and not needing me to prompt it directly multiple times to search.
Not sure what happened there. They have all the ingredients in theory but they've really fallen behind on actual usability.
Their image models are kicking ass though.
Peacetime Google is slow, bumbling, bureaucratic. Wartime Google gets shit done.
I don’t think this is intentional, but I think they stopped fighting SEO entirely to focus on AI. Recipes are the best example - completely gutted and almost all receive sites (therefore the entire search page) run by the same company. I didn’t realize how utterly consolidated huge portions of information on the internet was until every recipe site about 3 months ago simultaneously implemented the same anti-Adblock.
Apple made a social network called Ping. Disaster. MobileMe was silly.
Microsoft made Zune and the Kin 1 and Kin 2 devices and Windows phone and all sorts of other disasters.
These things happen.
Anyone with any sense is interested in how well these tools work and how they can be harnessed, not some imaginary milestone that is not defined and cannot be measured.
I think you overestimate how much your average person-on-the-street cares about LLM benchmarks. They already treat ChatGPT or whichever as generally intelligent (including to their own detriment), are frustrated about their social media feeds filling up with slop and, maybe, if they're white-collar, worry about their jobs disappearing due to AI. Apart from a tiny minority in some specific field, people already know themselves to be less intelligent along any measurable axis than someone somewhere.
Gemini has flashes of brilliance, but I regard it as unpolished some things work amazingly, some basics don't work.
I subscribe to both Gemini ($20/mo) and ChatGPT Pro ($200/mo).
If I give the same question to "Gemini 3.0 Pro" and "ChatGPT 5.2 Thinking + Heavy thinking", the latter is 4x slower and it gives smarter answers.
I shouldn't have to enumerate all the different plausible explanations for this observation. Anything from Gemini deciding to nerf the reasoning effort to save compute, versus TPUs being faster, to Gemini being worse, to this being my idiosyncratic experience, all fit the same data, and are all plausible.
Their chat feels similar. It just runs off like a wild dog.
Afaik, Google has had no breaches ever.
Privacy, not so much. How many hundreds of millions have they been fined for “incognito mode” in chrome being a blatant lie?
In a world where Android vulnerabilities and exploits don't exist
and when I swap back into the Gemini app on my iPhone after a minute or so the chat disappears. and other weird passive-aggressive take-my-toys-away behavior if you don't bare your body and soul to Googlezebub.
ChatGPT and Grok work so much better without accounts or with high privacy settings.
I hate how they insist on knowing everything I do all the time, but heavens forbid the minute I'm on a VPN or shared connection I have to do unpaid manual labor (100 CAPTCHAs) to train their AI
I guess it depends a lot on what you use LLMs for and how they are prompted. For example, Gemini fails the simple "count from 1 to 200 in words" test whereas Claude does it without further questions.
Another possible explanation would be that processing time is distributed unevenly across the globe and companies stay silent about this. Maybe depending on time zones?
Been using Gemini + OpenCode for the past couple weeks.
Suddenly, I get a "you need a Gemini Access Code license" error but when you go to the project page there is no mention of this or how to get the license.
You really feel the "We're the phone company and we don't care. Why? Because we don't have to." [0] when you use these Google products.
PS for those that don't get the reference: US phone companies in the 1970s had a monopoly on local and long distance phone service. Similar to Google for search/ads (really a "near" monopoly but close enough).
Requests regularly time out, the whole window freezes, it gets stuck in schizophrenic loops, edits cannot be reverted and more.
It doesn't even come close to Claude or ChatGPT.
Also the worst model in terms of hallucinations.
Claude Code is great for coding, Gemini is better than everything else for everything else.