In any case, it's well known that devs in Google have liked anthropic/openai models for coding more than gemini, so unless they're hiding their best models from the people within, I think it's just the case that they're behind.
Even with anthropics record breaking revenue growth I don't see how the pure AI companies can sustain, but the catch-22 is that any obvious pivot proves that. This puts the more traditional tech companies in position to ride the back of the wave until the growth curve tops.
If you ask questions, it will enable "AI overview" , but if we search about particular object/platform like "Google stock" or "bbc news", it will give the old classic search experience and we woulnd't need to swallow "AI overview" pill in that case.
Turns out licensing is separate for "code" and "pro"...
Google makes it very hard to use their shit and it was full of bugs.
Anthropic's current run is based entirely around Claude Code in this space and the last time I used the gemeini-cli it wouldnt give me access to the latest models and I was paying them for the privilege
https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/discussions/2727...
I get the complaints in that thread but I still think it is hilarious. That repo is a gong show to random shit and perhaps one of the best worst examples of "opensource" LLM development.
Sometimes you have to tab across and give it a PW, but it seemingly is incapable of parsing that, and just asking.
Kiro, what we use at work, on the other hand will just prompt you. (And doesn't like taking credentials directly)
Well done lads
we started model testing the cost/performance of our skills and agents and flash 3.5 wins in most things.
As people develop harnesses for their codebase i think the intelligence required comes down a lot.
Kiro is of course really good to back into AWS stuff, it knows more about AWS than Amazon themselves!
Gemini is really good at understanding my inane ramble and mis-spelling
