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0 pointsbugglebeetle10mo ago0 comments

Gemini 2.5 Pro is better at coding than Claude, it’s just not as good at acting agentically, nor does Google have good tooling to support this use case. Given how quickly they’ve come from far behind and their advantage on context size (Claude’s biggest weakness), this could change just as fast, although I’m skeptical they can deliver a good end user dev tool.

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MaxikCZ10mo ago

> Gemini 2.5 Pro is better at coding than Claude

Id be careful with stating things like these as fact. I asked Gemini for half an hour to write code that draws a graph the way I want, it never got it right. Then I asked Cladue 3.7 and it got it almost right the first try, to the point I thought its compeltely right, and fixed the bug I discovered right after I pointed it out.

virtualmic10mo ago

Yup, I have had similar experience too. Not only for coding, but just yesterday, I was asking Gemini to compose an email with a list of attachments, which I had specified as a list of file paths in the prompt, and it wasn't able to count correctly and report in the email text (the text went something like, there are <number_of_attachments> charts attached). Claude 3.7 was able to do that correctly in one go.

arunix10mo ago

How much do you pay for Gemini 2.5 Pro?

childintime10mo ago

Something like $20/month, first 2 months $10. Depends on the country.

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