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What makes Claude Code so damn good

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469 points samuelstros | 1 comments | 23 Aug 25 19:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.328s | source
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alex1138 ◴[23 Aug 25 19:52 UTC] No.44998613[source]▶
What do people think of Google's Gemini (Pro?) compared to Claude for code?

I really like a lot of what Google produces, but they can't seem to keep a product that they don't shut down and they can be pretty ham-fisted, both with corporate control (Chrome and corrupt practices) and censorship

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1. Keyframe ◴[23 Aug 25 20:09 UTC] No.44998738[source]▶
It's doing rather well at thinking, but not at coding. When it codes, often enough it runs in circles and ignores input. Where I find it useful is to read through larger codebases and distill what I need to find out from it. Even using gemini from claude to consult it for certain things. Opus is also like that btw, but a bit better at coding. Sonnet though, excels at coding.. from my experience though.