Gemini 2.5 Pro vs. Claude 3.7 Sonnet: Coding Comparison

I was using gemini 2.5 pro yesterday and it does seem decent. I still think claude 3.5 is better at following instruction then the new 3.7 model which just goes ham messing stuff up. Really disappointed by Cursor and the Claude CLI tool, for me they create more problems then fix. I cant figure out how to use them on any of my projects with out them ruining the project and creating terrible tech debt. I really like the way gemini shows how much context window is left, i think every company should have this. To be honest i think there has been no major improvement beyond the original models which gained popularity first. Its just marginal improvements 10% better or something, and the free models like deepseek are actually better imo then anything openai has. I dont think the market can withstand the valuations of the big ai companies. They have no advantage, there models suck worse then free open source ones, and they charge money??? Where is the benefit to there product?? People originally said the models are the moat and methods are top secret, but turns out its pretty easy to reproduce these models, and its the application layer built on top of the models that is much more specific and has the real moat. People said the models would engulf these applications built ontop and just integrate natively.

My only experience is via cursor but I'd agree in that context 3.7 is worse than 3.5. 3.7 goes crazy trying to fix any little linter errors and often gets confused and will just hammer away, making things worse until I stop generation. I think if I let it continue it would probably proposed rm -rf and start over at some point :).

Again, this could just have to do with the way cursor is prompting it.