Comment by dekhn
20 hours ago
If you mean specifically the Gemini VS Code Extension: it's terrible compared to Claude Code or Codex. I don't know how they can get away with it. Just constant timeouts, weird failure modes, have to start a new chat to switch modes... but I don't think any of that is specific to gemini the model- it seems to be the extension.
As for actual solutions to problems ignoring the VS Code extension aspect, I find all three premiere models to be excellent coding agents for my purposes.
The overall quality of LLM coding tools is shockingly bad. I haven't found a single one without major issues, and many have the same problems reappear every few months, sometimes bad enough to almost break the entire thing (e.g. 100% failure rate in editing files, broken for weeks, with the same cause each time, multiple times in a year).
I'd say I'm surprised by it, but uh
>The overall quality of LLM coding tools is shockingly bad
Most of them were vibecoded in days, so what do you expect? And new versions just add features, they never fix the old cruft.
Probably there would be some money to be made if someone actually takes the time to write a good agent harness.