All of this seems like manufactured hype for Gemini. I use GPT-5.2, Opus 4.5, and Gemini 3 flash and pro with Droid CLI and Gemini is consistently the worst. It gets stuck in loops, wants to wipe projects when it can’t figure out the problem, and still fails to call tools consistently (sometimes the whole thread is corrupted and you can’t rewind and use another model).

Terminal Bench supports my findings, GPT-5.2 and Opus 4.5 are consistently ahead. Only Junie CLI (Jetbrains exclusive) with Gemini 3 Flash scores somewhat close to the others.

It’s also why Ampcode made Gemini the default model and quickly back tracked when all of these issues came to light.