Why hackers moved from Claude to Gemini
1 hacker described this switch in public comments. Their words, with links to the originals.
What hackers said about the move
“I switched from claude few months ago to gemini3 and didn’t look back.”dzhiurgis, 2026-02-20original comment ↗
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Claude vs Gemini
| Claude | Gemini | |
|---|---|---|
| Hackers who recommend | 24 | 12 |
| Hackers who criticize | 25 | 5 |
| Moved away from it | 13 | 2 |
| Moved to it | 11 | 4 |
Counts are distinct hackers in the sampled comments, not market share.
Criticism of Claude
“But yet they can afford to pay Anthropic $200/mo forever?”lrvick, 2026-10-30original comment ↗
“I've mostly switched from Claude to Codex because I find the harness so buggy and annoying that I avoid it when I can.”overgard, 2026-10-14original comment ↗
“at the end both models swore that the code is perfect and well designed and nothing is lacking.”username_my1, 2026-09-28original comment ↗
“Claude always spoke to me with a suspicious side eye as if I was trying to do something naughty.”declan_roberts, 2026-09-22original comment ↗
“after I cancelled my Claude subscription because it found tge responses verbose, condescending.”andsoitis, 2026-09-20original comment ↗
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 Claude
Other moves to Gemini
- ChatGPT → Gemini (2)
- GPT-5 → Gemini (1)