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Gemini 2.5 Pro vs. Claude 3.7 Sonnet: Coding Comparison

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467 points mraniki | 1 comments | 31 Mar 25 12:09 UTC | HN request time: 0.213s | source
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amazingamazing ◴[31 Mar 25 12:56 UTC] No.43534492[source]▶
In before people post contradictory anecdotes.

It would be more helpful if people posted the prompt, and the entire context, or better yet the conversation, so we can all judge for ourselves.

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1. genewitch ◴[31 Mar 25 19:12 UTC] No.43538624[source]▶
you have to dump a csv from the microsoft website. i linked the relevant parts below. I spent ~8 hours with copilot making a react "app" to someone else's spec, and most of it was moving things around and editing CSS back and forth because copilot has an idea of how things ought be, that didn't comport with what I was seeing on my screen.

However the MVP went live and everyone was happy. Code is on my github, "EMD" - conversation isn't. https://github.com/genewitch/emd

i'd link the site but i think it's still in "dev" mode and i don't really feel like restoring from a snapshot today.

note: i don't know javascript. At all. It looks like boilerplate and line noise to me. I know enough about programming to be able to fix things like "the icons were moving the wrong way", but i had to napkin it out (twice!) and then consult with someone else to make sure that i understood the "math", but i implemented the math correctly and copilot did not. Probably because i prompted it in a way that made its decision make more sense. see lines 2163-2185 in the link below for how i "prompt" in general.

note 2: http://projectftm.com/#I7bSTOGXsuW_5WZ8ZoLSPw is the conversation, as best i can tell. It's in reverse chronological order (#2944 - 2025-12-14 was the actual first message about this project, the last on 2025-12-15)

note 3: if you do visit the live site, and there's an error, red on black, just hit escape. I imagine the entire system has been tampered with by this point, since it is a public server running port 443 wide open.