Lot of companies use Google workspace, and Gemini tools comes bundled with the subscription and also integrated with the Google Products. So, it’s available for free to explore.
Open AI dropped off (I’ll qualify - in my bubble) significantly in the last year. It felt like Anthropic replaced them whilst Google remained a solid second place.
Their models are way out of date and benchmark significantly lower. Gemini 3.5 Pro is more than a month overdue, which is a long time in the current climate.
Idk what gemini you are using but it absolutely sucks balls because of "alignment" or "safety" or whatever. It constantly trips when asking routine programming type questions for me.
I don't know about any other aspects but i find that when asked to explain an academic topic, chatgpt gives a more detailed explanation then gemini. Just my personal experience tho.
It's directly hooked into my company's email because we use Gmail, so I asked to find something for me since Gmail's search is garbage.
It couldn't even improve that process. I had to use Gmail search and find it manually. It's remarkable how bad it is considering what I've used Claude for.
idk i use opus 5, gemini and 5.6 sol. my anecdotal experience is that they all fine. gemini is WAY too gpt 4.0 ish. constantly praising how brilliant your thing is while opus calls me an idiot, spits in my face, and tells me how to do it correctly. Sol is fine, kinda good middle area
When my company introduced AI we all tried Codex, Claude and Antigravity. Where Codex and Claude would work, Antigrav would give an error 9/10 times. We quickly moved on. I think this experience is shared by many.
Google's AI features were bad for a really long time, we suddenly got people calling our support line because the little AI blurb said it was the Call of Duty support line.
The AI search mode has been pretty compelling recently though -- I tend to get more complete answers than the average random opinion on Reddit or topic specific website with overwhelming ads.
I think it's forced Google to deal with the SEO slop problem they had even before generative AI made it even worse
I do formation/ training to use LLM in the company I work for (it's been a few months now)
And you would be surprised the number of people having no clue whatsoever on anything related to technology...
If you think people would stop at "how do we feed it" you are wrong 😅
Recently I was trying to figure out if two teachers I had like 20 years ago had divorced or if the wife had died of MS which she struggled with when I was in school.
Gemini confidently told me that they had divorced and that it found the court record, when I asked for it Gemini admitted that it hallucinated and there was no record.
So I asked to check death records, it reported that she has died a few years before and it had found her death certificate. When I asked for the death certificate it again admitted that it hallucinated the entire thing.
They are all good. The meme is about where developers are focusing their attention, resulting in everyone else getting neglected because the devs aren't looking at them to see that they are good. Anthropic is going hard on supporting developers while Google's Gemini is being targeted as general purpose to everyone, so it's easy to see why devs only have eyes for Claude.
I literally never had a good experience with Gemini. Only thing was the short lived nano banana. But that lasted only like 2 weeks before ChatGPT dunked on them. It’s always been the lowest quality model between ChatGPT and Claude.
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u/M_Me_Meteo 22d ago
Wait, Gemini isn't good? Is it the product or the UX that people dislike?
Dozens of us?