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Comment by axblount

15 days ago

Gemini isn't perfect but I find it a lot less annoying than other model families (personal preference or stockholm syndrome). Interested to read the reviews.

Is it actually available?

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robotmay  15 days ago

Seconded. Anthropic feel the need to limit how abusive you can be to Claude because god, I want to throttle that snotty little shit. Google don't have to do that with Gemini because it just isn't as irritating. It does what I ask and doesn't try to second-guess my requests, or do "the quick fix".

  • chpatrick  15 days ago

    I'm the opposite, I found Gemini so annoying that I had to stop using it, Claude was a breath of fresh air afterwards.

    • hiq  15 days ago

      Maybe it's all about how often we encounter the quirks of specific model? Or simply that one's way to prompt triggers more annoyances with a model than another?

      I'd be curious to see if people have managed to just add custom instructions to make the outputs more standardized and less annoying. I never have such annoying cases, whatever the model, it's just too verbose, but in this case I ask it to be more concise and it's usually fine.

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  • IshKebab  15 days ago

    To be fair they dramatically improved how annoying Claude is with Opus 5.5. It's not perfect but it's not nearly as awful as it was.

    • artdigital  15 days ago

      Opposite for me. Output of 5.5 is better but its safety and moral standing skyrocketed. I am constantly hitting refusals for simple tasks, which previous generations (like 4.8) do without giving me a tirade.

      Anthropic’s vision of “safe” is so frustrating to deal with, it makes me want to go back to ChatGPT.

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ckx  15 days ago

I've been using ChatGPT since GPT 3 and even after trying different AI models, I always end up drifting back to ChatGPT.