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MixedCursor, Gemini · 22 Jan 2026

Gemini's been the worst performer

Octokat on Hacker News

In the thread “Ask HN: What single AI tool/technique 10x'd your productivity last year?”, replying to this comment

Got in the way: Gemini underperformed on large, complex codebases.

I use Cursor with a max subscription through work and using Gemini in multi-model mode alongside Opus 4.5 and GPT 5.2 Codex, Gemini's been the worst performer. Not saying it's a bad model just that the other 2 do a much better job at the level and complexity of large codebases. …