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Re: Gemini-2.5-pro-preview-06-05

#41
post #20

I pay for both ChatGPT Plus and Gemini Pro. I'm thinking of cancelling my ChatGPT subscription because I keep hitting rate limits. Meanwhile I have yet to hit any rate limit with Gemini/AI Studio.

I think AI Studio uses the API, so rate limits are extremely high and almost impossible for a normal human to reach if using the paid preview model.

Re: Gemini-2.5-pro-preview-06-05

#42
post #12

Impressive seeing Google notch up another ~25 ELO on lmarena, on top of the previous #1, which was also Gemini! That being said, I'm starting to doubt the leaderboards as an accurate representation of model ability. While I do think Gemini is a good model, having used both Gemini and Claude Opus 4 extensively in the last couple of weeks I think Opus is in another league entirely. I've been dealing with a number of gn…

o3 is still my favorite over even Opus 4 in most cases. I've spent hundreds of dollars on AI code gen tools in the last month alone and my ranking is:

1. o3 - it's just really damn good at nuance, getting to the core of the goal, and writing the closest thing to quality production level code. The only negative is it's cutoff window and cost, especially with it's love of tools. That's not usually a big deal for the Rails projects I work on but sometimes it is.

2. Opus 4 via Claude Code - also really good and is my daily driver because o3 is so expensive. I will often have Opus 4 come up with the plan and first pass and then let o3 critique and make a list of feedback to make it really good.

3. Gemini 2.5 Pro - haven't tested this latest release but this was my prior #2 before last week. Now I'd say it's tied or slightly better than Sonnet 4. Depends on the situation.

4. Sonnet 4 via claude Code - it's not bad but needs a lot of coaching and oversight to produce really good code. It will definitely produce a lot of code if you just let it go do it's thing but it's not the quality, concise, and thoughtful code without more specific prompting and revisions.

I'm also extremely picky and a bit OCD with code quality and organization in projects down to little details with naming, reusability, etc. I accept only 33% of suggested code based on my Cursor stats from last month. I will often revert and go back to refine the prompt before accepting and going down a less than optimal path.

Re: Gemini-2.5-pro-preview-06-05

#44
post #12

Impressive seeing Google notch up another ~25 ELO on lmarena, on top of the previous #1, which was also Gemini! That being said, I'm starting to doubt the leaderboards as an accurate representation of model ability. While I do think Gemini is a good model, having used both Gemini and Claude Opus 4 extensively in the last couple of weeks I think Opus is in another league entirely. I've been dealing with a number of gn…

in my experience this highly depends case by case. For some cases Gemini crushed my problem, but in next one stuck and couldn't figure out simple bug.

the same with o3 and sonnet (I didn't tested 4.0 much yet to have opinion)

I feel thet we need better parallel evaluation support. where u could evaluate all top models and decide with one provided best solution

Re: Gemini-2.5-pro-preview-06-05

#45
post #32

I found all the previous Gemini models somewhat inferior even compared to Claude 3.7 Sonnet (and much worse than 4) as my coding assistants. I'm keeping an open mind but also not rushing to try this one until some evaluations roll in. I'm actually baffled that the internet at large seems to be very pumped about Gemini but it's not reflective of my personal experience. Not to be that tinfoil hat guy but I smell at lea…

> I'm actually baffled that the internet at large seems to be very pumped about Gemini but it's not reflective of my personal experience. Not to be that tinfoil hat guy but I smell at least a bit of astroturf activity around Gemini. I haven't used Claude, but Gemini has always returned better answers to general questions relative to ChatGPT or Copilot. My impression, which could be wrong, is that Gemini is better in…

You should try Grok then. It's by far the best when searching is required, especially if you enable DeepSearch.

Re: Gemini-2.5-pro-preview-06-05

#46
post #12

Impressive seeing Google notch up another ~25 ELO on lmarena, on top of the previous #1, which was also Gemini! That being said, I'm starting to doubt the leaderboards as an accurate representation of model ability. While I do think Gemini is a good model, having used both Gemini and Claude Opus 4 extensively in the last couple of weeks I think Opus is in another league entirely. I've been dealing with a number of gn…

o3 is still my favorite over even Opus 4 in most cases. I've spent hundreds of dollars on AI code gen tools in the last month alone and my ranking is: 1. o3 - it's just really damn good at nuance, getting to the core of the goal, and writing the closest thing to quality production level code. The only negative is it's cutoff window and cost, especially with it's love of tools. That's not usually a big deal for the Ra…

It's interesting you say that because o3, while being a considerable improvement over OpenAI's other models, still doesn't match the performance of Opus 4 and Gemini 2.5 Pro by a long shot for me.

However, o3 resides in the ChatGPT app, which is still superior to the other chat apps in many ways, particularly the internet search implementation works very well.

Re: Gemini-2.5-pro-preview-06-05

#47
post #3

I feel like instead of constantly releasing these preview versions with different dates attached they should just add a patch version and bump that.

They can't because if someone has built something around that version they don't want to replace that model with a new model that could provide different results.

Except google did exactly that with the previous release, where they silently redirect 03-25 requests to 05-06.

Re: Gemini-2.5-pro-preview-06-05

#48
post #32

I found all the previous Gemini models somewhat inferior even compared to Claude 3.7 Sonnet (and much worse than 4) as my coding assistants. I'm keeping an open mind but also not rushing to try this one until some evaluations roll in. I'm actually baffled that the internet at large seems to be very pumped about Gemini but it's not reflective of my personal experience. Not to be that tinfoil hat guy but I smell at lea…

I'm switching a lot between Sonnet and Gemini in Aider - for some reason some of my coding problems only one of models capable to solve and I don't see any pattern which cold give answer upfront which I should to use for specific need.

Re: Gemini-2.5-pro-preview-06-05

#49
post #6

As if 3 different preview versions of the same model is not confusing enough, the last two dates are 05-06 and 06-05. They could have held off for a day:)

Engineers are surprisingly bad at naming things!

I rather like date codes as versions.
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