alt Hacker NewsFor heavyweight work I have been using Astra, but for rabbit holes and brain storming Gemini is far more enjoyable to interact with.
I'm worried in their push to catch up on the SOTA front, it's going to lose that natural sounding touch it currently has.
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Is Google still chasing frontier? Seems like they haven't had a "Pro" model in forever. I think a good niche for them would be right where they are now.
Mostly because it answers quickly and is more agreeable (too agreeable at times).
Meanwhile Claude and Astra like to couch all their agreements with caveats and provisos.
For rabbit holes, how do you get Gemini to do any research before answering? I've very recently had it hallucinate on me like it's 2023, and that was on Pro/Thinking, as far as I remember.
Good news then, I don't think they're in a hurry to catch up to SOTA.
Agreed. My impression is that the more verbose output of sol, astra etc is that it helps it steer itself on long running tasks (but is worse for the human user to read)