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jasonthorsnessyesterday at 7:32 PM2 repliesview on HN

I used Gemini instead of my usual Claude for a non-trivial front-end project [1] and it really just hit it out of the park especially after the update last week, no trouble just directly emitting around 95% of the application. Now Claude is back! The pace of releases and competition seems to be heating up more lately, and there is absolutely no switching cost. It's going to be interesting to see if and how the frontier model vendors create a moat or if the coding CLIs/models will forever remain a commodity.

[1] https://github.com/jasonthorsness/tree-dangler


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hu3yesterday at 7:46 PM

Gemini is indeed great for frontend HTML + CSS and even some light DOM manipulation in JS.

I have been using Gemini 2.5 and now 3 for frontend mockups.

When I'm happy with the result, after some prompt massage, I feed it to Sonnet 4.5 to build full stack code using the framework of the application.

diego_sandovalyesterday at 9:26 PM

What IDE/CLI tool do you use?

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