Bloomberg: Google employees worry Gemini 4 coding underperforms; insiders call report detached from reality
xennygrimmato_ · x · 2026-10-02
Per Bloomberg, some Google employees with early access say Gemini 4's strong benchmarks aren't translating to real-world performance, especially on coding and front-end design, and the model may be expensive to run; Google disputes this and says consensus is the model is frontier-level, having also scrapped the planned Gemini 3.5 Pro relaunch. Internal voices like SicongJiang25 push back hard, calling the report detached from reality and citing overwhelmingly positive internal reception.
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