I think this is organic. I've observed the exact same thing over the last week: I tried Google Antigravity and really liked it when I was using my Claude quota. I ran out of Claude quota and tried Gemini 3.1 Pro and it was comparatively terrible at using the tools provided by the IDE. (but it's a useful model in the browser for chat)

Given my own experiences with LLMs, I'm convinced about half the comments on any given thread are just bots told to hype <insert_product_here>

The article is AI-generated at least.

Could be both?

I've been leaning more towards claude. A lot of the LLM tropes seem to be ChatGPT really? I feel like claude doesn't do as much of the overly intense "its this -- not that" pattern and isn't constantly acting like my hype man. Claude code has been nice 90% of the time. I haven't tried to many competitors though.