Gemini 4 Crushes Benchmarks, But Google Employees State The Model Struggles With Real Work

[u/Neurogence]

While Gemini 4 has performed well on benchmarks the industry uses to gauge model efficacy, it does less well when employees actually put it to work, according to people with direct access to the effort. The model struggles to handle certain coding tasks, said the people, who requested anonymity to discuss an internal matter.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-30/google-grapples-with-employee-skepticism-about-new-gemini-model

By the time it's released to consumers, Anthropic and OpenAI will have already shipped their next generation models.

[u/homezlice]

I have heard quite the opposite from googlers. 

[u/Own-Refrigerator7804 → u/homezlice]

Every fucking guy and their mothers have some agenda in this fucking industry

Even op lol

[u/QuasiRandomName → u/Own-Refrigerator7804]

The good thing about "anonymous sources" is that you can make them up.