alt Hacker NewsI cancelled my ChatGPT subscription because of Gemini 3, so obviously I'm having a different experience.
That said, I use Opus4.5 for coding through Cursor.
Gemini is for planning / rubber ducking / analysis / search.
I seriously find it a LOT better for these things.
ChatGPT has this issue where when it's doesn't know the explanation for something, it often won't hallucinate outright, but create some long-winded confusing word salad that sounds like it could be right but you can't quite tell.
Gemini mostly doesn't do that and just gives solid scientifically/ technically grounded explanations with sources much of the time.
That said it's a bit of a double edged sword, since it also tends to make confident statements extrapolating from the sources in ways that aren't entirely supported but tend to be plausible.
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Fully agree. ChatGPT is often very confident and tells me that X and Y is absolutely wrong in the code. It then answers with something worse... It also does rarely say "sorry, I was wrong" when the previous output was just plain lies. You really need to verify every answer because it is so confident.
I fully switched to Gemini 3 Pro. Looking into an Opus 4.5 subscription too.
My GF on the other side prefers ChatGPT for writing tasks quite a lot (school teacher classes 1-4).
+1 canceled all OpenAI and switched to Gemini hours after it dropped. I was tired of vape AI, obfuscated facts in hallucinations and promises of future improvements.
And then there is pricing too…
I think it is proving yo be the case that there isn't much stickiness in your chat provider. OpenAI thought memory might bring that but honestly it can be annoying when random things from earlier chats pollute the current one.
I also cancelled ChatGPT Plus recently in favour of Gemini. The only thing I don't about the Gemini consumer product is its insistence on giving YouTube links and thumbnails as sources. I've tried to use a rule to prevent it without luck.
I am subscribed to both at the moment but for my coding task I find Gemini 3 inferior to ChatGPT 5.2.
Hah, it's funny because I actually cancelled my Gemini subscription to switch full time to ChatGPT about 6 months ago, and now I've done the reverse - Gemini just feels better at the tasks that I'm doing day to day. I think we're just going to see that kind of back and forth for a while while these systems evolve.
> ChatGPT has this issue where when it's doesn't know the explanation for something, it often won't hallucinate outright, but create some long-winded confusing word salad that sounds like it could be right but you can't quite tell.
This is just hallucinating.