Why hackers moved from Gemini to Claude
1 hacker described this switch in public comments. Their words, with links to the originals.
What hackers said about the move
“We moved from Gemini to Claude recently, and while I absolutely love Claude's coding capabilities, I often find myself extremely overwhelmed whenever I ask Claude to…”read full quote
“We moved from Gemini to Claude recently, and while I absolutely love Claude's coding capabilities, I often find myself extremely overwhelmed whenever I ask Claude to explain something to me”
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Gemini vs Claude
| Gemini | Claude | |
|---|---|---|
| Hackers who recommend | 12 | 24 |
| Hackers who criticize | 5 | 25 |
| Moved away from it | 2 | 13 |
| Moved to it | 4 | 11 |
Counts are distinct hackers in the sampled comments, not market share.
Criticism of Gemini
“Google's Gemini hallucinated spots or imagined details -- at one point it included a shed in the middle of a road”user2722, 2026-10-03original comment ↗
“AI probably wont save you (Gemini sure wont).”autoexec, 2026-08-18original comment ↗
“I find myself cutting all ties with google services (youtube premium, drive, gemini etc.) as they try to force unwanted features and workflows in my daily life.”f4stjack, 2026-06-03original comment ↗
“I was not impressed. It is straight up unreliable, e.g. deleting code and forgetting to add the new stuff it was asked to”kaspermarstal, 2026-05-19original comment ↗
“In the middle of the conversation it randomly switched from English to Russian and clearly struggled to maintain the tone imposed by the built-in prompt.”VTimofeenko, 2026-02-19original comment ↗
Praise for Claude
“those apps while not the best gui apps, already infinitely better than tui”nsonha, 2026-10-01original comment ↗
“I recently switched from Codex to Claude”RestartKernel, 2026-09-16original comment ↗
“claude was able to diagnose that the 2013 rail is around 11.44v (outside of the 10v range iirc)”jlawrence6809, 2026-09-02original comment ↗
“So far all the suggestion that Opus 5.0 offered me, always aligned with what i wanted.”benjiro29, 2026-08-13original comment ↗
“Clause writes scaffolds quick and flawless anyway”search_facility, 2026-07-26original comment ↗