Am I using a different Gemini from everyone else? We have Google Workspace at my job, so Gemini is baked in.

It is HORRENDOUS when compared to other models.

I hear a bunch of other people talking about how great Gemini is, but I've never seen it.

The responses are usually either incorrect, way too long, (essays when I wanted summaries) or just...not...good. I will ask the exact same question to both Gemini and ChatGPT (free) and GPT will give a great answer while the Gemini answer is trash.

Am I missing something?

I've been finding it leaps and bounds above other models but I'm only using it via aistudio. I haven't tried any IDE integration or similar, so can't talk to that. I do still have to tell it to stop it with the effusive praise (I guess that also helps reduce context windows)

I agree. I think it comes down OpenAI's superior post-training.

ChatGPT is better at:

A) Interpreting what I'm asking it for me needing to provide additional explicit context.

B) Formatting answers in a way that are easily digestible.

I use Gemini almost exclusively for coding and 2.5 Pro is extremely good at it. It has revised hundreds of lines of academic code for me at a time and the results run correctly with only minor revision.

I will also say whatever they use for the AI search summary is good enough for me like 50% of the time I google something, but those are generally the simpler 50% of queries.

Maybe you are using it wrong.