FWIW I've found the complete opposite to be true, and have gone claude->chatgpt->gemini over the past few months.

Why?

	▲	engineer_22 a day ago \| parent [-]
		Im slowly migrating more of my work to Gemini too, Gemini is a workhorse now, 1M context is huge and their reasoning took a huge leap with Argon. I'm not in software, I'm in physical engineering, and where Claude is unpredictable w.r.t. engineering risk, Gemini is steady, measured. That's been my perception, anyway.

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petesergeant a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I believe you, but this is so very, very far from my experience with Google models that I have great difficulty reconciling it. I use Gemini for data-extraction, and I use Notebook LM for my medical notes just because it's an OK interface, but it will reliably screw the pooch on the simplest of reasoning or common-sense tasks.

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pietz a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Glad you found what works for you but before Carbon, Gemini models have been utter garbage for more than 6 months now. I'm happy to debate anyone on this. Even DeepMind engineers agreed with this.

Gemini 3.8 Flash is the most benchmaxxed model to date and even Argon hallucinated so much, it was impossible to use it for any professional work.

	▲	artdigital a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I disagree with this. Flash 3.7 and Flash 3.8 are excellent models and put (for me) Gemini back on the radar. I’ve been using them a lot since release, and still do for simple implementations and grunt work. They’re also excellent (together with Flash-Lite) to use for consumer facing features where speed and cost matters
	▲	fer a day ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		I've been using 3.8 Flash (and Argon and Carbon) to clean up a lot of Claude mess. But I fully agree on 3.1 Pro, it was only good for conversational stuff and some deep dives, but not for actual agent work.
	▲	p_l 16 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		I would like to see those hallucinations, because I haven't generally got any, and with my current loops in agy anytime they do minor hallucinations they get caught by adversarial review part. Using 3.x flash series heavily over last 6 months, and along with experiences on Argon and Carbon (haven't yet played much with Hydrogen, but initial experience looks great too)
	▲	mattlondon 15 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I've been using 3.8 Flash a lot and have been having a really nice time using it. I have not experienced the hallucinations or benchmaxxing people are complaining about. People keep banging on about how the hallucinations are so terrible that it cannot be used for anything etc, yet benchmarks like https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/omniscience#aa-omn... show the top two best models for not hallucinating are Gemini models. Something does not align with these complaints from people who are trashing the Gemini models - one has to wonder if they just tried it for 5 mins then give up because it doesn't behave exactly like Claude does. As mentioned I used 3.8 Flash for a lot of things because I don't like working with Claude all day (its generally a sanctimonious prick to work with) and I way prefer working with Gemini's personality. 3.8 Flash seemed to me to be a really decent model for every day run of the mill get-shit-done work. True I have not tried to cure cancer or solve navier-stokes recently, but for your standard day to day coding works its been really solid. I am excited to try 4 Hydrogen now.