Why hackers moved from ChatGPT to Gemini
2 hackers described this switch in public comments. Their words, with links to the originals.
What hackers said about the move
“Gemini 3 is great, I have moved from gpt and haven't looked back.”m348e912, 2026-01-08original comment ↗
“I’ve recently switched from OpenAI as my daily ‘helper’ chatbot to Gemini”helsinkiandrew, 2025-11-30original comment ↗
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ChatGPT vs Gemini
| ChatGPT | Gemini | |
|---|---|---|
| Hackers who recommend | 13 | 12 |
| Hackers who criticize | 9 | 5 |
| Moved away from it | 6 | 2 |
| Moved to it | 6 | 4 |
Counts are distinct hackers in the sampled comments, not market share.
Criticism of ChatGPT
“But as a buyer, why would you want OpenAI to play middleman when you can have the LLM itself vet the stores?”theturtletalks, 2026-08-07original comment ↗
“I switched from ChatGPT to Claude 3 months ago because my account was down for like 6 hours.”boron1006, 2026-07-14original comment ↗
“GPT's code ends up way more verbose/complex/overengineered than it needs to be.”mschuetz, 2026-06-27original comment ↗
“With what I do ChatGPT does nott feel great to use.”2020science, 2026-03-30original comment ↗
“There was another comment I recall from today, discussing how OpenAI is not-so-subtly adopting a social-network-esque model, in how it's fine-tuned its chat system to…”read full quote
“There was another comment I recall from today, discussing how OpenAI is not-so-subtly adopting a social-network-esque model, in how it's fine-tuned its chat system to always suggest another question that the user might want to ask.”
Praise for Gemini
“that was a breeze with Gemini Pro models.”pid0x17, 2026-09-15original comment ↗
“Gemini at the time had much longer context window and was miles ahead on R syntax.”5555watch, 2026-08-19original comment ↗
“Gemini has been indispensable for helping me move from Windows to Linux.”Jordan-117, 2026-06-09original comment ↗
“found myself using Gemini more than I expected”cflewis, 2026-06-08original comment ↗
“gemini was good in between.”kramit1288, 2026-05-19original comment ↗
Other moves from ChatGPT
Other moves to Gemini
- Claude → Gemini (1)
- GPT-5 → Gemini (1)