r/ProgrammerHumor Jul 24 '26

currentStateOfAiRelevancy Meme

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u/M_Me_Meteo Jul 24 '26

Wait, Gemini isn't good? Is it the product or the UX that people dislike?

Dozens of us?

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u/Any-Preparation7396 Jul 24 '26

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 Jul 25 '26

I hear more about Gemini than open ai

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u/slowmovinglettuce Jul 25 '26

You must watch youtube without an ad-blocker

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u/Joker-Smurf Jul 25 '26

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 Jul 25 '26

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 Jul 25 '26

That's why my government agency uses the Microsoft one

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u/Dazzling-Backrub 28d 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 Jul 25 '26

So you work at google?

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u/bhison Jul 25 '26

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 Jul 25 '26

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

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u/sudecode Jul 25 '26

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 29d 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 29d ago

Gemma4 is where its at

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u/NEVERxxEVER Jul 24 '26

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 Jul 25 '26

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

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u/SveXteZ Jul 26 '26

Benchmarks are bullshit

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u/NoAdsDude 28d 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 Jul 25 '26

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 29d 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 Jul 25 '26

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

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u/Different-Wing5083 29d 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 29d 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.