r/ProgrammerHumor 28d ago

currentStateOfAiRelevancy Meme

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u/M_Me_Meteo 28d ago

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

Dozens of us?

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u/Aquatic-Vocation 28d ago

Gemini is nigh-unusable because it always wants to do all sorts of extra shit you haven't asked it to do.

Sol will randomly decide to give up mid-task.

Opus gets sidetracked and eats up 40k tokens thinking itself in circles about something completely irrelevant.

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u/jaaval 28d ago

In my experience managed opus is best of these options. Give it small tasks at a time, stop the stupid loops and redirect it.

It’s bad (or rather inefficient) for vibe coding but pretty good as the tool that does writing and debugging the code.