Is Gemini really that bad? I mean, I would always prefer anthropic for agentic coding, and apparently openai has the math thing cornered, but if I'm using ai like a search engine gemini does that just fine. That may be all they were actually aiming for whatever else they say.
Gemini works amazingly well, and is better suited for most use cases. When most people speak of it negatively (especially here), it's just with the task of coding, which is a small subset of what google should be training its AI for.
If you need a less censored model that's still pretty smart and capable of some lateral thinking, it's great
Same niche as Grok, which is also great at search and less censored. Gemini is maybe a bit smarter and better on long contexts
It’s not bad. It’s just not better than other models. It’s very much in the same class as Grok, Cursor Grok Build, etc.
It's vision capabilities are still top notch, and it seems pretty natural that most everyday human users are going to want strong vision over strong language/coding.