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Gemini is the Swiss Army knife of the AI world. Backed by Google, it is available across platforms and deeply integrated into Android, letting it do things no other chatbot can do right now. And the pace at which Google has brought Gemini up to speed with its rivals is just remarkable. Having said that, it often feels like ChatGPT made the best of its first-mover advantage, maintaining its lead in overall usability and response quality even today.
I jump between Gemini and ChatGPT throughout the day for different tasks, using each quite extensively. Despite having access to Gemini’s full capabilities through my Google AI Pro plan, I continue to separately subscribe to ChatGPT because Google’s AI chatbot still doesn’t feel like it’s there yet, and these are my reasons.
If you could only keep one AI subscription, which would you choose? 225 votes ChatGPT 24 % Gemini 40 % Claude 20 % Others 4 % I wouldn't pay for any AI chatbot 13 %
Can’t consistently follow complex instructions
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There have been several instances where I would give Gemini a fairly lengthy set of instructions, and it would just skip a few of them as if they were never there. That has happened within individual chats and even inside Notebooks that are supposed to pull together context from multiple chats. I experimented with running a full-fledged expense manager inside Gemini recently, and I faced this issue more than once where it would just refuse to follow instructions.
Additionally, Gemini’s scheduled tasks feature has given up on me entirely for the past couple of weeks. It just wouldn’t run despite me giving commands to restart the schedule on multiple occasions and even turning on the toggle manually. Whether it is a bug or something else, I’m not sure, but the fact is that Gemini feels like it’s still a work in progress and could use some polishing before actually feeling reliable.
I would have forgiven it easily for such relatively minor hiccups, but I’ve had a far more consistent and reliable experience with ChatGPT over the last few years to put up with whatever’s going wrong with Gemini in the backend.
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