Try planning with Luna, implementing with Sol with guidelines to not exceed the given scope.

Sounds counter-intuitive at first, but Luna is overall better at sticking with what works. Sol is wicked smart but needs constraints.

I setup Luna as main Claude Code driver (so zero anthropic api use) and it nailed crisply a handful of python tasks, gonna continue this way.

I love Luna too. An excellent model and still usually better value per dollar than Gemini if you pay for API tokens. Things may change with 3.8 - we'll know soon.

IME you're supposed to have Sol drive Luna sub-agents to do 90% of the work. Sol should primarily be the verifier and goal setter. Use omp.sh with Task Delegation -> Always to strongly encourage Sol to drive Lunas. Also Luna prefers to be talked to with English in XML.

That's the thing. I am completely lost because there are so many redundant paths to get the same thing and I'm trying to figure out which one is the best deal

Google AI person here:

Using grounding in Gemini is indeed backed by the same canonical data source for business information (like opening hours) as Google Maps. This stuff is available in its own API for a GCP fee, but we’ve built tooling to connect it to the Gemini agentic ecosystem as well.

It definitely steers. For example if it suggests travel plans, the booking links it provides give Alphabet a cut.

As you say it was subtle, along the lines of "oh, if you are planning on going to the place you are researching, here are some helpful links to places you can stay". Subtle, in that it didn't get in the way of main result, so I didn't mind overly. Insidious, as I only noticed because I wondered why it was providing those particular links and looked them up. I can't see how you could ad-block them if I did object.

And worrying, because these unblockable sneaky ads are just a first foray coming from a company that prostitutes its own app store searches, by making the first and most obvious result utterly unrelated to to the search topic. Instead it's who paid them the most to be there. That behaviour is why everyone dumped Alta Vista when an alternative came along. Alternative Android app stores can't come soon enough.

They already skim off 15% of purchases which I'm sure makes their Android operation return a profit that makes other industries drool. Debasing their search to ad a tiny bit extra on top must by driven pure greed. Senseless, as I'm sure it will come back to bite them in the end.

This thinking is why I am all in on GOOG shares. As a bonus, that means I’m getting part of Anthropic’s gains as well!

I suspect Gemini doesn’t focus that much on coding, at least compared to frontier labs. It’s not part of Gemini’s core business case.

Gemini’s integration with maps and search is more important for Google.

Once you've written something, it's incredibly easy to overlook minute changes to the text.

See: why authors wait days, weeks, or even months before editing what they've written (or, if you're more interested: cognitive regression, inattentional blindness, and the effects of misdirected saccades).

1. That's a wild conclusion from his comment! Understand that it's not an "either/or".

2. I'd wager the majority of HN commenters don't read their own comment before posting (pre-LLM days).

Eh that one is on me, if I think too much about my HN comment I end up deleting before posting it. I rely on the 1 min `delay` set in the profile page to fix before it goes live, but for some reason this time it was set to 0.