Gemini
12 recommend 5 criticize 4 moved to it 2 moved away
Why hackers recommend it
“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 ↗
“Until it didn't, as GPT and Gemini models made a leap.”flail, 2026-05-15original comment ↗
“Disabling it and always using the pro model did wonders for my results.”kivle, 2026-03-08original comment ↗
“code quality just vastly better, all while far cheaper”dzhiurgis, 2026-02-20original comment ↗
“Gemini 3 is great, I have moved from gpt and haven't looked back.”m348e912, 2026-01-08original comment ↗
“models with cheap long context (Gemini, DeepSeek) are winning the race”veunes, 2025-12-05original comment ↗
“I am still happy to pay Google because of their ecosystem or Gemini app, NotebookLM, Colab, gemini-cli, etc.”mark_l_watson, 2025-12-02original comment ↗
“I’ve recently switched from OpenAI as my daily ‘helper’ chatbot to Gemini”helsinkiandrew, 2025-11-30original comment ↗
What hackers criticize
“Google's Gemini hallucinated spots or imagined details -- at one point it included a shed in the middle of a road”user2722, 2026-10-03original comment ↗
“AI probably wont save you (Gemini sure wont).”autoexec, 2026-08-18original comment ↗
“I find myself cutting all ties with google services (youtube premium, drive, gemini etc.) as they try to force unwanted features and workflows in my daily life.”f4stjack, 2026-06-03original comment ↗
“I was not impressed. It is straight up unreliable, e.g. deleting code and forgetting to add the new stuff it was asked to”kaspermarstal, 2026-05-19original comment ↗
“In the middle of the conversation it randomly switched from English to Russian and clearly struggled to maintain the tone imposed by the built-in prompt.”VTimofeenko, 2026-02-19original comment ↗
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- ChatGPT → Gemini (2 hackers)
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