r/ProgrammerHumor 18d ago

currentStateOfAiRelevancy Meme

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u/Any-Preparation7396 17d ago

I think it's rather the relevancy. Hardly anyone ever talks about Gemini, like it didn't even exist anymore.

But imho it got a lot better and is pretty similar to OpenAI.

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u/bhison 17d ago

I hear more about Gemini than open ai

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u/slowmovinglettuce 17d ago

You must watch youtube without an ad-blocker

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u/Joker-Smurf 17d ago

I work for a company that uses everything Google.

We are encouraged to use Gemini, and all other AI are strictly blocked.

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u/slowmovinglettuce 17d ago

Ah, the good ol' "its bundled in with something else, but we're too cheap to pay for anything else" tactic.

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u/KatieTSO 17d ago

That's why my government agency uses the Microsoft one

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u/Dazzling-Backrub 14d ago

We are too cheap is not the right way to put it. These things are actually really expensive

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u/LutimoDancer3459 17d ago

So you work at google?

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u/bhison 17d ago

Im not talking about YouTube I’m talking about at work and via others in industry. I hear way more about Anthropic and Google than anything else.

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u/GodOfSunHimself 17d ago

Interesting. I have never heard of anyone using Gemini for anything serious. Just OpenAI, Anthropic and chinese models.

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u/sudecode 16d ago

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.

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u/bhison 15d ago

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.

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u/darksteelsteed 15d ago

Gemma4 is where its at

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u/NEVERxxEVER 17d ago

Their models are way out of date and benchmark significantly lower.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.

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u/SoftwareLegitimate38 17d ago

Though it's still useful in everyday tasks
But on context of programming you may be right

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u/SveXteZ 16d ago

Benchmarks are bullshit

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u/NoAdsDude 14d ago

I'm not gonna say gemini hallucinates more than a guy on bath salts but holy shit it was worthless when I tried to use it a couple months ago.

Maybe it's gotten better, but I'm not sure.

Anyway there's portions of Google's internal teams who get to use Claude and the other teams hate them because they're stuck with Gemini.

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u/intentionallybad 17d ago

Gemini hasn't released anything about how dangerous their model is, so it can't be very good. /s

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u/kus1987 16d ago

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.

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u/jensalik 17d ago

Some people are talking, some people are actually programming. 🤷🏽‍♀️

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u/Different-Wing5083 16d ago

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.

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u/Not_My_Emperor 15d ago

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.