Comment by dahcryn
1 day ago
Claude Code > Gemini CLI, fair enough
But I actually find Gemini Pro (not the free one) extremely capable, especially since you can throw any conversation into notebooklm and deep thinking mode to go in depth
Opus is great, especially for coding and writing, but for actual productivity outside of that (e.g. working with PDF, images, screenshots, design stuff like marketing, tshirts, ...,...) I prefer Gemini. It's also the fastest.
Nowhere do I feel like GPT 5.2 is as capable as these two, although admittedly I just stopped using it frequently around november.
5.2 wasn’t out in November and it is better than 5.1, especially codex.
I have the feeling that these discussions are much more tribal rather than evidence based. :)
Tribal? Not really. Subjective? Absolutely. Objectively 5.2 scores higher on benchmarks than 5.1; subjectively it works better for me than 5.1. I don't care too much about other opinions TBH :)