Comment by magicalhippo
8 hours ago
I've been trying Gemini Pro using their $20-ish Goole One subscription for a couple of months, and I also find it consistently does fewer web searches to verify information than say ChatGPT 5.4 Pro which I have through work.
I was planning on comparing them on coding but I didn't get the Gemini VSCode add-in to work so yeah, no dice.
The Android and web app is also riddled with bugs, including ones that makes you lose your chat history from the threads if you switch between them, not cool.
I'll be cancelling my Google One subscription this month.
I don't sweat sources and almost never check them. I usually prefer to manually check information after it's provided, to prevent the model from borking it's context trying to find sources that justify it's already computed output. Almost all the knowledge is already baked into the latent space of the model, so citing sources generally is a backwards process.
I see it like going to the doctor and asking them to cite sources for everything they tell me. It would be ridiculous and totally make a mess of the visit. I much prefer just taking what the doctor said on the whole, and then verifying it myself afterwards.
Obviously there is a lot of nuance here, areas with sparse information and certainly things that exist post knowledge cut-off. But if I am researching cell structure, I'm not going to muck up my context making it dig for sources for things that are certainly already optimal in the latent space.
You're supposed to download the antigravity VSCode fork and use that and it's rough at best I think. Hey free opus tokens though.