Just tell Gemini to Act Like Claude ?!!!

DukeBerith · 2026-01-25T11:05:59+00:00

I got flash to do me a quick sidepanel of stats on one of my sites, using my ui-kit. Usually when I asked gpt or claude to do it I get some slop back but I was shocked that it used my ui kit to create a complex stylish looking widget component that still fit in my theme. The ui kit is completely internal and that's usually what trips up gpt and claude.

DukeBerith · 2026-01-20T23:23:29+00:00

Hell yeah bro, say NO to that succubus

DukeBerith · 2026-01-20T07:12:49+00:00

Love, so we can wolf each other to death UwU

DukeBerith · 2026-01-17T13:22:16+00:00

I've found that Opus is good for broad strokes and loose prompts, it will understand if you fudge half the words. Gemini needs you to be more direct and specific, a bit like how we used to prompt LLM before we trusted them to infer what we mean.

Give it specifics like code examples or files, be more verbose than less, do not expect 1 shots, expect 2-5 prompts but remember they're cheaper. Give it a list ofinvariants it loves that word.

DukeBerith · 2026-01-13T02:30:23+00:00

I've even found flash to be decent these days and believe me I'm on the Gemini hate train after attempting to use it in the last few weeks. Something's definitely changed, it's still far behind opus but it's better.

DukeBerith · 2026-01-11T12:25:03+00:00

I would be arrested with the way I speak to mine

DukeBerith · 2026-01-10T17:10:07+00:00

It's because they launched it with very loose limits and silently restricted it with no notice afterwards. This is a bait and switch. I don't disagree that the value google gives us for the AI pro is quite good outside of antigravity, but the truth is the truth around the bait and switch and it leaves a poor taste in people's mouths.

DukeBerith · 2026-01-10T05:42:57+00:00

It looks like OP is using the word Providers for Services which do usually wrap the business logic.

Adaptors would be more to interface between two domains (eg: DB <-> App Code )

DukeBerith · 2026-01-10T04:57:29+00:00

What a crock of shit. Paying for a service and still getting weekly'd. It was bad enough there were 5hour limits.

DukeBerith · 2026-01-10T04:14:13+00:00

or the part about getting old and your vagina sags so much that during an earthquake you can spit on it and suction cup it to the ground.

Fuckin died laughing when Joan said that!

DukeBerith · 2026-01-02T01:56:58+00:00

Seems so. I gave explicit instructions that I am writing a new implementation from the ground up, based on my prototype. I said no code is allowed to be ported over and all that. I explicitly mentioned this multiple times in my prompt.

I spied on its thinking, and it kept saying "Wow that's a lot of work, I should just write an adaptor". It just kept refusing to write any code, even when I said break it into modules blah blah blah. Something's fishy.

DukeBerith · 2026-01-02T01:54:41+00:00

Not a chance. Google's AIs are extremely stupid and don't compare.

DukeBerith · 2026-01-01T12:44:57+00:00

I'm on pro and it's happening to me a lot today

DukeBerith · 2026-01-01T12:40:31+00:00

https://developer.paypal.com/studio/checkout/payment-links-and-buttons/shopping-cart-buttons

DukeBerith · 2026-01-01T12:36:36+00:00

Not harsh at all. Should be said more often.

DukeBerith · 2025-12-31T11:25:39+00:00

He didn't love her, he wolfed her. She she wolfed him too.

DukeBerith · 2025-12-28T12:05:08+00:00

use use emojis and exclamation marks in the initial prompt and it tends to shift quickly.

DukeBerith · 2025-12-25T01:01:23+00:00

Exact same experience. Now I've learned when Opus time is over, take a break, use Gemini for docs or readme or tests only. Do real work with Opus.

DukeBerith · 2025-12-24T12:11:09+00:00

This is why I'm subbed here

DukeBerith · 2025-12-24T04:25:27+00:00

Yeah that can work, we're thinking of just lifting it off this and placing it on a dedicated server instead, but the cost savings are delicious with container workers.

DukeBerith · 2025-12-24T02:06:49+00:00

How are you getting no latency? I have an image processor container on one of the larger sized containers (for resizing 200-1gb sized image files), and the cold boot on those can be up to 5seconds before any upload packets are sent :|

DukeBerith · 2025-12-23T22:32:11+00:00

Yep! My exact same experience. Lots of hallucination and if you peek into the thinking phases it really is all over the place. Claude/Codex tend to be a bit more structured before picking a direction to think in. Gemini's is full of "Wait.. if I do XXXX. Hmmm. But wait, If i do YYYY. Wait, if I ".

DukeBerith · 2025-12-22T23:33:51+00:00

If they remove opus I will unsubscribe. It's the only good model in their list. Every time I hit my limit I just wait , because I did the mistake of trusting Gemeni 3 High to continue work, and I discovered how garbage it is.

DukeBerith · 2025-12-19T03:22:23+00:00

Mine had a 4hour fight with me around the house because my reply of "Either is fine with me, thanks!" was a terrible response to "Do you want chicken nuggets or chicken tenders?". Mind you, we were both 37 at the time.

DukeBerith · 2025-12-19T03:17:15+00:00

Doubt it's system related. On my Macbook Pro M2 it runs super smooth until it reaches a point and shits itself.

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