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Comment by someguyiguess

8 hours ago

They have to have SOME competitive advantage. What reason is there to use Gemini over Claude or ChatGPT? It's not producing nearly the quality of output.

I recently did my taxes using all three models (My return is ~50 pages, much more than a standard 1040).

GPT (codex) was accurate on the first run and took 12 minutes

Gemini (antigravity) missed 1 value because it didn't load the full 1099 pdf (the laziness), but corrected it when prompted. However it only spent 2 minutes on the task.

Claude (CC) made all manner of mistakes after waiting overnight for it to finish because it hit my limit before doing so. However claude did the best on the next step of actually filing out the pdf forms, but it ended up not mattering.

Ultimately I used gemini in chrome to fill out the forms (freefillableforms.com), but frankly it would have been faster to manually do it copying from the spreadsheets GPT and Gemini output.

I also use anti-gravity a lot for small greenfield projects(<5k LOC). I don't notice a difference between gemini and claude, outside usage limits. Besides that I mostly use gemini for it's math and engineering capabilities.

  • Yep, I've found Gemini to be the best LLM at most tasks that are not coding. Sometimes Opus wins for engineering, but Gemini holds its own there as well. I also used Gemini to assist me with understanding the details of my (pre-revenue) C-Corp taxes this year. It did a pretty good job walking me through each question I had and raising concern about things I might have overlooked. I validated everything against reliable sources, of course.

    Gemini missed on some nuances about the paperwork processes of Delaware. Gemini repeatedly assumed I could do something instantly via an online portal that actually required either snail-mail or the use of an intermediate who actually had API access to Delaware's systems. In the end, these processes took a couple days, and while I got things done in time, I wish I had not taken questions of process at face value, and instead wish I had kicked off the taxes at the end of February rather than week before they were due.

Well comparing Gemini 3.1 Pro vs ChatGPT 5.4 Pro, it's much faster at replying. Of course, if it actually thinks less then that helps a lot towards that. For most of my personal and work use-cases, I prefer waiting a bit longer for a better answer.