I don't really understand the amount of ongoing negativity in the comments. This is not the first time a product has been near copied, and the experience for me is far superior to code in a terminal. It comes with improvements even though imperfect, and I'm excited for those! I've long wanted the ability to comment on code diffs instead of just writing things back down in chat. And I'm excited for the quality of gemini 3.0 pro; although I'm running into rate limits. I can already tell its something I'm going to try out a lot!
It's not really good for real-life programming though, it invents lot of imaginary things, cannot respect its own instructions, forgets basic things (variable is called "bananaDance", then claims it is "bananadance", then later on "bananaDance" again).
It is good at writing something from scratch (like spitting out its training set).
Claude is still superior for programming and debugging. Gemini is better at daily life questions and creative writing.
Similar stuff my end; I'm coding up a complex feature - Claude would have taken fewer interventions on my part, and would have been non buggy right off the bat. But apart from that the experience is comparable.
