Gemini is a generalist model and works better than all existing models at generalist problems.

Coding has been vastly improved in 3.0 and 3.1, but Google won't give us the full juice as Google usually does.

My guess is that Google has teams working on catching up with Claude Code, and I wouldn't be surprised if they manage to close the gap significantly or even surpass it.

Google has the datasets, the expertise, and the motivation.