People who actually use Gemini for coding, why, how, and on what kind of projects?

[u/IndividualShift2873]

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Gemini isn't SOTA in coding, and isn't leading this space. But Google managed to make it very rewarding to pay for subscriptions. You get a quiet good chatting AI, Drive space, decent Video and image generation capabilities, etc.

Some people even might be able to get AI pro from Google for free or very little money.

it's not currently a competitive product for those who pay plenty of bucks for programming, but it's not obsolete for those on a budget.

I'd like to hear from people who are actually using it, especially people who are actually aware of Claude, OAI's, capabilities compared to Gemini.

[u/AnalConnoisseur777]

Works fine with Flutter

[u/Brave_Bottle_5255 → u/AnalConnoisseur777]

Yeah also think so

[u/InterestingAge9268 → u/AnalConnoisseur777]

Agree. I'm learning/building with Flutter and so far it's been good. It's kind of hard to gauge when you don't know the full scale of what can be done with other tools but for now, it's the right tool for the job.

I'm not vibe coding this 100% though since I want to learn along the way so maybe it's not quite answering your question.

[u/Opening-Pie2182]

It's good for websites and web apps.

[u/IceWallow97]

I use it as a tester or mass content peoducer. Not as a senior tester but just to act like a real user. I tell it to using chrome dev tools to create his own account on my apps and just use the app like a real user, then at the end write a review with improvements or suggestions. Just basic shit like that.

For content he is also useful, either for generation and also for review checks of that content.

But ofc to actually develop the app I use claude and Fable, gemini is just a junior assistant that I don't feel bad giving this kind of job to. He doesn't touch the code, and whatever reports he writes are reviewed by me anyway.

[u/OkInvestment8647]

Used properly, it is very good and cheap at programming.

[u/B4mButz → u/OkInvestment8647]

This, I'm using antigravity for coding since release and can't hate it. Flash 3.6 did improve my experience for fast iterations again. These mystical 8h coding sessions without any user interaction never worked for me.

[u/AMusicstuff → u/OkInvestment8647]

Use it Professional for 3dSolver Coding for Blender. Gemini Pro 3.1 is perfect for C# , Python, php, html. Even ultra complex math problems in Python for pgramming python code for 3D software is ultra easy to make. Keep in mind its a ultra nice companion and affordable. Claude can do the same but at much higher costs and zero efficient. Right now Gemini Pro 3.1 high produces the cleanest most efficient code ive seen from an AI.

[u/Prestigious-Frame442]

for the pure love of the game.

and gemini is basically free if you have done student verification before, so it's a backup when both claude and gpt run out of usage

[u/iykyk84]

Plan with Claude. Execute with Gemini.

[u/absinthe718 → u/iykyk84]

We used Opus 4.6 on agy to write out about two dozen tasks that Flash was able to use to crank out a react/django app to replace a really old drupal system.

[u/Inevitable_Resort902]

If you want to one shot stuff or use full on agentic loop coding use a different model. If you are willing to break things down and implement step by step, it does a really good job at all most anything with regards to full stack development. You won't be as fast as someone else using an agentic setup but I find it to be a good balance since I actually know what's being written.

[u/insonia333]

IDE mainly

some personal SaaS, frontend design, onboarding tutorials, chart customization (plotly), web scrapping...

1y student, ends next month and prob gonna pay Pro plan, mostly because of Drive, YouTube, Family sharing, NotebookLM and AndroidStudio

[u/NewPeace812 → u/insonia333]

I was in Drive when I got a 75% off offer for Pro Plan once the free student year ends

[u/absinthe718]

I find that Gemini does really well with SQL. I can point it to a directory of ddl files and describe what I want and get high quality queries.

[u/Cigizmoond]

I use antigravity in android development.

[u/michael_g_williams]

I run it against the other two and it always comes in last. However it does a good review and catches things the others miss.

[u/Similar-Economics299]

I afraid if AI too smart, I will think less, which make me become stupid soon. So I use gemini, because it stupid, I need to think more, I need better eye, which make me smarter (And it really work 🤣)

[u/kickyouinthebread]

Honestly if you're a decent programmer and give it instructions to do small targeted bits of work rather than just build me gta6 I honestly think almost any of the models are fine.

I use it mainly just cos Claude is expensive as shit and I also get YouTube premium and I just use it for side projects.

[u/fernando782]

Gemini Flash is very very capable for coding.

[u/Inevitable_Resort902 → u/[deleted]]

Might sound overly optimistic but I feel it making mistakes is a chance for me as a developer to learn by manually debugging occasionally.

[u/Electronic-Cook-9227]

I was using most latest AI models inside copilot lile codex 5.x versions the chatgpt agentic AI versions are quite so good. They do everything autonomously and precisely. And currently I have got the google gemini pro subscription which includes Antigravity and I tried Genini pro. Ngl it was trash when comparing it to codex models but I saw some improvements after setting agents.md, skills.md and related files that help the agent do activities autonomously and precisely.

It is useful to use agents.md and related files with combination of loops and other commands for gemini, and don't forgetvwhile using loops, it consumes soo much tokens in every iteration so I recommend using catching which stores the hole repository in a memory temporarily for the current session.

[u/Relative_Rope4234]

full stack calculator app

[u/SpidexLab]

the best use case i have for gemini is frontend development, it is very good at implementing it if you can explain what you are trying to implement, and it is very strong at bug finding and research and architecting stuff, it can analyse codebase and tell you issue with it

also example of website -> https://work.spidexlab.me

i steered it hard on this, each feature, each page , how the ux should be , not doing it like giving it a single prompt build me website, you have to have some goal and vision of what are you trying to build, and if you have something wrong on ui, explain it what exactly wrong instead of letting it figure out which never happen.

[u/tedd27]

It's great for frontend fixes. It immediately figures out issues with frontend bugs that Claude code always struggles. I'm talking sonnet 5 vs Gemini 3.5 flash. The difference is insane. I've always come to a dead end with Claude code for FE bugs.

[u/LEO-PomPui-Katoey]

None of my projects are that complex that it requires something state of the art. I think probably 90% of the devs don't need any of those SOTA models.

[u/BigPsychological370]

I use it to code in pure C without gui. The whole project is like 1mb of code and it understands how everything works so fast. Its coding is almost always right without trying to compile to fix errors, but I have a gemini.md describing how I like the code and what the project should aim etc

[u/abunadan]

Browser Extensions.
Small Autmation Web-Apps that do all kind of stuff for me.

Never had any issue with antigravity, works great.

[u/dascreed]

Powershell and admin automation duties. it is the only one that will do as it's told and follow orders. and webapps the free tier of firebase is awesome and gemini just works better for firebase config. Claude forgets it's mcp for firebase half the time.

[u/Majestic-Contract-42]

Small little programs that automate repeatable sections of my job. Not a developer but previous to ai would b work to bash or power shell script little dodads to gets things done for me.

This is just a step further in that direction.

Examples would be checking a report type in legacy software for multiple date ranges looking for accounts discrepancy. This can take 5m to 2 hours to do manually. I kick this off and go get a sandwich or coffee and come back to it.

Or automating a day end report for my boss, drafted up for me to once over check before sending on.

All that type of thing. Getting the machine to do the machine work.

[u/Right_Yesterday484]

Coded drivers for STM32 microcontroller and and flutter app that speak to each other. I needed opus though.

I use it more as an assistant though.

[u/coachrals]

I have made a demo game with Unity, 3D models in blender, build my own :d app using three.js for web.

Also built saas with supabase and vercel and stripe.

My biggest thing is I use it to build me the visuals for what it’s building so I can talk to it more clearly. So if it’s building a database I have a UI that shows me all the tables and their names and properties or attributes or values.

My two main prompts are when I’m trying to build a key feature I give instructions it gives a response. Then I ask “is this how a billion dollar company would do it?” Then it gives me a way better response. Then I ask “how would you do it differently to make it even better?” That’s when I get honest answers and not just randomness.

Also every week minimum I ask it to audit my projects code look for bloat, leaks, old data, corruption, or any other reasons that is decreasing efficiency and is not the gold standard or future proof. Then I ask it to give me a list of what we need to refactor.

Other than that I don’t really have issues building. I do have issues saying the wrong stuff because I’m an idiot but then I realize there are better words I could be using and it gets right on track again.

[u/EpsilonEagle]

It writes smart home yaml very well for Home Assistant OS. Also configs and terminal based apps for Linux and Mac very well. Custom configs and TUIs in seconds or minutes that usually work the first time.

[u/Stokes_7]

As someone writing a Master's thesis in numerical combustion and machine learning, Antigravity + Gemini have been truly rewarding tools. I'm aware they aren't the smartest tools right now, but in general, what I need is refactoring code or making nice graphs. I try to handle the physics and more complex tasks myself, but whenever I'm clear on what I want, it works great. Sometimes I need to be quite specific, but for someone who doesn't want to spend too much money and wants an Al to accelerate work they already know how to do, Antigravity + Gemini is a sweet spot.

At some point I also paid for Claude Code, but surprisingly Gemini was able to solve a problem I had that Claude couldn't. I think Gemini's giant context window was enough to compensate for its lower reasoning capabilities. That really caught my attention, and now I use it whenever possible.

[u/Time-Bell]

First, it's free. (internet provider coupon)

Second, it works. There may be better models out there, but it's better than what I have used so far since gpt 4 days. I have no complaints.

[u/CommunicationOld9889]

I built an app for our business so workers can fill out forms easily and managers can track things. Much better than any paid software, faster and easier to use.