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Gemini Code vs. Claude Code – A cautionary post-mortem ($800 in 12h)

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This reads as AI generated. Also Pangram thinks it’s 100% AI generated: https://www.pangram.com/history/5e8482d0-203e-435c-a89e-509e...

Yes, I should have communicated more clearly I used an AI tool to help me compose my review about itself.

Sorry, you have been blocked You are unable to access aspencreekbs.com

I’m getting the same in the UK

Same. Popping on a VPN using the USA worked (I didn't try anything else).

Also, I have the Google One AI Pro 5TB subscription and all I've used it for this week is asking some simple questions like looking up TV shows I forgot, helping me find a non-junk USBC cable and it checks my emails once a day and let's me know if anything important looking arrived, just in case I missed it. Just now I asked it to set a reminder and apparently I've maxed out my usage for this period and need to wait until 7pm. Crazy. I must have far higher usage from Gemini doing a few searches on Google with the AI overview, yet I'm limited in the part I actually pay for?!?

it does really good UI mocks too!

Same, Australia

Getting this in Canada lol, did the site die?

Apolgoies! Fixed.

I do not agree that not spawning agents makes things cost more, if at all a cycle of try / fix / repeat is easier to see and ctrl-c out of (assuming you are at the console and not letting things run while you sleep, which seems like a good idea on api pricing!) than a harness spawning 25 agents and burning through $200 in 10-15 minutes (not hard to do)

My apologies for the excessive restriction on my link. Fixed. Yes I used the tool Gemini to write my review of Gemini Code as it would add some degree of impartiality on its own behalf. I wrote this comment myself so it will check as real and not AI for everyone.

Unable to access

https://archive.is/Lv1cM

Not going to read it anyway, I see too many AI flags that I can safely assume this is garbage written by a robot

Sorry for the problems. I promise its my own thoughts organized by tools i use 20 hours a day now.

A poor craftsman blames the tools.

Indeed! I'm working to improve every single day!

What is meant by "Gemini Code"? The "Antigravity CLI" or the deprecated, enterprise-only "Gemini CLI"? or the "Gemini Code Assist" extension for IDEs?

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