Time for Gemini
Tonight was the final straw. I gave a prompt to Gemini that was pretty simple.
While I do love working with Claude Code, to be honest I can not afford it. The code is great out of claude but it uses a massive amount of tokens to give results for every prompt. So many that I do not even trust that it is legit. My goto daily driver for code is OpenAI's Codex CLI, they are super efficient with token usage, so I rarely hot my limits.
For general chatbot though i prefer Gemini. I was offered a really good price to try try Gemini Pro for 3 months at $9.99, so I signed up. While I still will use Gemini for my voice chat bot general day to day questions and research, I was totally disappointed time and time again with the coding abilities. Strange cause it has excellent benchmarks for coding.
Tonight was the final straw. I gave a prompt to Gemini that was pretty simple. Claude did it perfectly in 11 minutes. Codex did it in 12 minutes. Gemini,,, well it is still going., so far we are at 1 hour and 47 minutes. There is no way this could be used in a production setting! Below is the prompt I gave. Simple, right?
I would like you to create a web app at www.jaenulton.com/asl/ I would like to use tailwind, next.js and mysql and the it needs to be built as a SAAS allowing for multiple tenants. The inital admin credentials will be jaenulton@gmail.com with a password of 123123. Each tenant will need a config page where they can enter their node ssh credentials. After that is done we will begin adding some functions. Obviously the site will need an auth system with login, log out, sign up, and forgot password pages. The index.php page will act as a marketing landing page highlighting the features of the site.