[mellosouls]

I agree with much of your post, but:

Claude is still the gold standard for AI assisted coding. All your Geminis and o3s of the world still don’t match up to Claude.

Out of date I think in this fast moving space.

Sonnet has long been the gold-standard, but that position is looking very shaky at the moment; Gemini in particular has been working wonders for me and others when Sonnet has stumbled.

VS Code/Copilot has improved massively in Cursor's wake, but yes, still some way to go to catch up.

Absolutely though - the value we are getting is incredible.

[asaddhamani]

In my experience, there are areas where Gemini did well but Claude didn't, same for o1 pro or o3, but for 90% of the work, I find Claude way more trustworthy, better at following instructions, not making syntax mistakes, etc. Gemini 2.5 Pro is way better than all their prior models, but I don't get the hype about it being a coding superstar. It's not bad, but Sonnet is still the primary workhorse. Sonnet is more expensive, so if Gemini was at the same level I'd be happy to save the money, but unfortunately, I've tried it with various approaches, played with the temperature, but in the vast majority of cases Claude does a better job.