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andrewstuartyesterday at 6:56 PM2 repliesview on HN

Gemini was awesome and now it’s garbage.

It’s impossible for it to do anything but cut code down, drop features, lose stuff and give you less than the code you put in.

It’s puzzling because it spent months at the head of the pack now I don’t use it at all because why do I want any of those things when I’m doing development.

I’m a paid subscriber but there’s no point any more I’ll spend the money on Claude 4.6 instead.


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halaproyesterday at 7:07 PM

I never found it useful for code. It produced garbage littered with gigantic comments.

Me: Remove comments

Literally Gemini: // Comments were removed

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ergonaughtyesterday at 7:38 PM

It seems to be adept at reviewing/editing/critiquing, at least for my use cases. It always has something valuable to contribute from that perspective, but has been comparatively useless otherwise (outside of moats like "exclusive access to things involving YouTube").