alt Hacker NewsGemini is also pretty nice for researching things. It turns out that having the whole internet indexed and having unlimited access to YouTube is a force multiplier of some kind.
Since Google has their own TPUs, TPS is also pretty high w.r.t. Claude, for example.
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Since Gemini 3.8 Flash release, I've been largely using that for my coding ttasks. The architectureand design work I use Opus, but the rest of the work is done via Gemini 3.8. I don'thave to worry aboutweekly limits even on the $20 plan. I get down to about 10% weekly limit before it resets. Currently I'm building my own generative modeling + aero sim package largely using Gemini and it's been working great.
Gemini is unbelievably bad for research in my experience. It hallucinates like it's 2023, doesn't use its own search, makes up fake rationalizations for why it didn't need to etc.
It's baffling that OpenAI managed to get better at web search than the company literally synonymous with web search.
I think Gemini could be a great product, if they didn't decide to stuff it down my throat at every possible occasion.
Recent example: on my e-reader, tapping a word I don't now and clicking "Translate" pulls up the possible translations from a dictionary, a local file just a couple of megabytes big, near instantly, on this tiny processor.
Doing the same on my Android phone starts a Gemini-chat with the prompt "Translate the word x into y". Takes forever, internet access needed, results vary, burns who knows who much energy.
Why? Just why?