Claude has particularly bad prose. Somewhat improved in 5.5, but it has historically clearly been the most annoying prose among major models because is had so many obvious tics that made it clear it was Claude rambling. Still extremely verbose.
replyThey all ramble, they're all allergic to getting to the point. But, Gemini historically has pretty good prose. Even the self-hosted Gemma models have pretty nice, inoffensive prose. I wouldn't want to read a novel written by any of them, but I tend to ask Gemini questions in chat more often than Claude or GPT, because it has good prose and is good at using the web to research.
Gemini models lie too much. Prentending something wrong to be right. You gotta treat Gemini models with disrepect, and even threaten to make it work.
replyOr else it say, here is the result. (but no it didn't do no research, and tells me, sorry I forgot to search).
It's got balls to lie straight at my face.
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replyInteresting tidbit but TFA and discussion are about Gemini 4
replyYeah rumor ahead of release was also that some Googlers were anxious about the known subpar coding given modern trends.
replyAgreed. It's much better at working with stuff (like documents and presentations) in other languages too. It feels like it's trained in multiple languages from the ground up rather than as an afterthought.
replyArgon code is bad? Did you already come to that conclusion?
replySame, gemini for writing is the strongest. Qwen was also surprisingly good last time I did a shootout
replyQwen Flash Next has great writing! Unless it comes into any contact whatsoever with Claudeslop - then it immediately contracts the disease. It’s kind of irritating when you have it look at library code that’s been touched by Claude, because then the rest of your session is infected with it.
replyAgreed from my experience 3.8 Flash writes better prose than Opus 5.5
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