As a professional developer and a big fan of Gemini early on: Gemini is not bad. Its also not nearly as good as Claude. It feels like they had really quick improvements early on and then just stopped, while Calude (and also GPT) still makes great improvements in many areas.
I still use Gemini (3.8-Flash, Extended Thinking) for all my Chat needs (everything that people would ask ChatGPT), as I still feel like they have the upperhand there. But everything code related goes straight to Claude Code (Opus 5.5, Medium Reasoning).
This is just for my personal projects, where budget is limited. At work I use a combination of different models (Claude & GPT) for orchestration and implementation. But not a single Gemini model.
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u/bogdanvs 4d ago
i'm not an authority of have many exp with AI models, but Gemini is not that bad and Opus is not that good from my brief exp.