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phenomentoday at 7:38 PM4 repliesview on HN

It's also the only model that generates accurate translation and localization. No other frontier model comes close. Although Gemini's coding capabilities are subpar, its natural language processing is top-tier.


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thisgoodlifetoday at 9:08 PM

I’m curious how you guys keep track of each model’s coding capabilities. The landscape keeps changing. I don’t suppose you benchmark all frontier models every other month, right?

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staticman2today at 9:45 PM

That might depend on whether you are translating fiction or nonfiction.

Anecdotally I'd rate Gemini behind Claude and OpenAI models at fiction and I can't find any benchmarks showing Gemini is the clear winner at this task.

jakderridatoday at 9:28 PM

I found that it's shockingly good with R. (the only language I know and can correct for)

I doubt they even intended it to be, but it seems like I kept going from resorting to 3.5-3.8 (over time) to realizing that Claude and GPT, while great at Python, will make rudimentary mistakes with R; even when they compose giant complicated R code.