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It's not really good for real-life programming though, it invents lot of imaginary things, cannot respect its own instructions, forgets basic things (variable is called "bananaDance", then claims it is "bananadance", then later on "bananaDance" again).

It is good at writing something from scratch (like spitting out its training set).

Claude is still superior for programming and debugging. Gemini is better at daily life questions and creative writing.



yeah testing it out! good to know the above. My feel also is that claude is better so far.


It's not bad at all though, but it needs lot a baby-sitting like "try again, try this, try that, are you sure that it is correct ?"

For example, in a basic python script that uses os.path.exists, it forgets the basic "import os", and then, "I apologize for the oversight".


Similar stuff my end; I'm coding up a complex feature - Claude would have taken fewer interventions on my part, and would have been non buggy right off the bat. But apart from that the experience is comparable.




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