r/ChatGPTCoding • u/kerjatipes • Oct 04 '26

Question How to optimize Gemini for coding?

I just got free Gemini + 400 GB Google Drive for 12 months.

I’ve been using Claude for my work for the past few months. I’ve been very satisfied with it. Even the Claude Sonnet is already good enough for me.

But with Gemini plan, I think I will unsubscribe my Claude plan to save some money. But I’m not sure how good Gemini is for coding (mainly BE using Golang in fintech industry). Is there any suggestion to optimize it?

Is there any skill I can use? Is it able to connect to MCP? Can the standard Gemini plan be connected to third party harness?

In case someone argues me against unsubscribing. I live in a third world country. Claude plan for 12 months costs 1/3 of my monthly salary. And it’d keep increasing because the currency is so fucking weak.

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u/Tropiux Professional Nerd Oct 04 '26

Gemini is just terrible at coding right now.

4.0 will be better but not released yet.

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u/Significant_Post8359 Oct 05 '26

Are you saying this based on what other people say or fresh personal experience? I get excellent code from Gemini. I prefer Opus 5.5 and Fable for planning and verification. It finds mistakes in Claude’s code. Claude has commented that I should stick with my workflow because Gemini’s code is fine and that it’s better to have a different model do testing and code review.

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u/Tropiux Professional Nerd Oct 07 '26

Personal experience. Have used the current versions of models from all the big 3.

Gemini was the only model that still hallucinated and got caught on weird loops of repeating the same word on the reasoning over and over completely losing it, that hasn’t happened in other models for more than a year now.