'Nobody I know uses Gemini for coding' reignites debate over its coding chops
zacharynado · x · 2026-10-29
Zachary Nado quoted a post from Samay: "Not a single person I have ever spoken to uses Gemini for coding. This is still very weird — why is Gemini so bad at coding when Google has scoured the web full of code for decades?"
It's the latest round of the long-running community debate over Gemini's coding ability — a contested take, but one that echoes many developers' lived experience.
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