Analyzing student votes across AI models for college essay help
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#2Gemini is bad at coding, but good at writing. More human like
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#3Anything is better than the current crop of Claudes, its prose has become painful.
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#4True. Whenever I ask LLMs to translate English to other languages, Gemini is always the most natural one.
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#5ok. so what
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#6Anything is better than the current crop of Claudes, its prose has become painful.
You make some good points, but the best one is the one you might not be aware you've made.
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#7From my own tests, the best model for writing complex, nuanced prose is Opus 4.6. All the next versions are impossible to coax into good writing. Gemini is OK, GPT ok but requires significant prompt tuning.
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#8Gemini is bad at coding, but good at writing. More human like
Makes sense when you consider what type of data Google had available in abundance. Natural written language (e.g., Docs, Gmail, Books) and natural spoken language (e.g., YouTube).
One could argue that Google Colab would supply the training data for better coding performance. I would argue that Colab is mostly used for non-complex (e.g., small number of variables) and self-contained (i.e., runnable in one page) code that can’t train a model for multi-folder and multi-page projects that rely on global connections, which real-life coding would often require.
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#9In my experience, Gemini excels at explaining new concepts clearly and intuitively. Much more so than other models.
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#10Anything is better than the current crop of Claudes, its prose has become painful.
For real, the "Claudish" has become so painful to read that it just takes me out of whatever task I was working on.
When prompted to use simple English without jargon, it's still filled with load bearing honest caveats in every footgun seam it talks about — what I should have led with.
And I'm not the only one to notice this. Next time it's up for renewal, my team is abandoning it for GH Copilot in order to use literally any other frontier model.