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Gemini spits out reams and reams of code so over engineered, that totally works, but I would never want to have to interact with
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In the thread “Gemini 3”
Got in the way: Gemini produced over-engineered code that was difficult to maintain.
I have "unlimited" access to both Gemini 2.5 Pro and Claude 4.5 Sonnet through work. From my experience, both are capable and can solve nearly all the same complex programming requests, but time and time again Gemini spits out reams and reams of code so over engineered, that totally works, but I would never want to have to interact with. When looking at the code, you can't tell why it looks "gross", but then you ask Claude to do the same task in the same repo (I use Cline, it's just a dropdown change) and the code also works, but there's a lot less of it and it has a more "elegant" feeling to it. …