1. Gemini is better at this. It will predicate any follow-up question you pose to it with a paragraph about how amazing and insightful you are. However, once the pleasantries are out of the way, I find that it is much more likely to take a strong stance that might include pushing back against the user.

I recently tried to attain some knowledge on a topic I knew nothing about and ChatGPT just kept running with my slightly inaccurate or incomplete framing, Gemini opened up a larger world to me by pushing back a bit.

2. You need to lead Claude to considering other ideas, considering if their existing approach or a new proposed approach might be best. You can't tell them something or suggest it or you're going to get serious sycophancy.

I've had Gemini say you're absolutely right when I misunderstood something, then explain why I'm actually wrong (the user seems to think xyz, however abc...), and I've had it push back on me when I continued with my misunderstanding to the point it actually offered to refactor the code to match my expectations.

> I find that it is much more likely to take a strong stance that might include pushing back against the user.

Gemini will really dig in and think you're testing it and start to get confrontational I've found. Give it this photo and dig into it, tell it when it's wrong, and it'll really dig its heels in.

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