I think that both Gemini (as a generic chat & image model, with phone integration) and Grok (as a search & ELI5 model) beat GPT and Claude 9 out of 10 times. Google did a great job with Gemini 3 (it's much better for normies than GPT 5.x) and honestly Grok 4.1 is my go-to as a search engine stand-in right now.
Since May last year though, whenever I want to vibe code something, Claude (+ Code tooling) has been consistently improving and reducing the need for me to correct it (and beating the competition). I suspect that this is because Anthropic prioritizes optimization for tool calling, extensibility and self-checks, whereas both Grok and Gemini are a bit more generic. Gemini 3 has beaten Claude 4.5 Opus on some standalone coding questions I've thrown at it on arena.ai, but from a process perspective, I think that Anthropic has something going for them.
fwiw, I like Anthropic the company about as little as I like what Google has become, but that doesn't mean that their product can't be good.
I think that both Gemini (as a generic chat & image model, with phone integration) and Grok (as a search & ELI5 model) beat GPT and Claude 9 out of 10 times. Google did a great job with Gemini 3 (it's much better for normies than GPT 5.x) and honestly Grok 4.1 is my go-to as a search engine stand-in right now.
Since May last year though, whenever I want to vibe code something, Claude (+
Codetooling) has been consistently improving and reducing the need for me to correct it (and beating the competition). I suspect that this is because Anthropic prioritizes optimization for tool calling, extensibility and self-checks, whereas both Grok and Gemini are a bit more generic. Gemini 3 has beaten Claude 4.5 Opus on some standalone coding questions I've thrown at it onarena.ai, but from a process perspective, I think that Anthropic has something going for them.fwiw, I like Anthropic the company about as little as I like what Google has become, but that doesn't mean that their product can't be good.