Users rank Sonnet 5 above Grok 4.5 and Gemini 3.6 Flash on coding tasks
firstadopter · x · 2026-07-21
A user says Gemini 3.6 Flash trails Grok 4.5 and Sonnet 5 on coding tasks
The post quotes a comparison claiming that Gemini 3.6 Flash performs worse than Grok 4.5 on coding tasks, and ranks the models as:
- Sonnet 5
- Grok 4.5
- GPT 5.6 Luna
- Gemini 3.6 Flash
The author adds that they once praised Google, but now want the company to “be serious” again, suggesting frustration with the model gap in coding quality.
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