alt Hacker NewsI tried Gemini 3 Flash, and I am unimpressed. It's maybe a competitor to Cursor's Compose-1, but completely different league from GPT 5.2
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walthamstow • last Thursday at 6:49 PM
Glad I'm not alone in thinking Flash 3 was like Composer 1 in speed but smarter
Surely Gemini 3.0 Pro would be the appropriate comparison.
If you want to compare the weakest models from both companies then Gemini Flash vs GPT Instant would seem to be best comparison, although Claude Opus 4.5 is by all accounts the most powerful for coding.
In any case, it will take a few weeks for any meaningful test comparisons to be made, and in the meantime it's hard not to see any release from OpenAI since they announced "Code Red" (aka "we're behind the competition") a few days ago as more marketing than anything else.