I just tried out Google Gemini in my new web app I'm building. It failed MISERABLY!
First, it tried to start the app and 14 minutes later was still sitting there doing nothing. I stopped it and asked what's going on. It said it's waiting on the app to start. But it WAS started. I could use it in my browser.
It continuously failed to see that it started. Then it wanted ME to run CURL commands and copy and paste the resutls because for some reason, it couldn't do anything.
I was wanting it to fix a bug in my web app that was failing to play large video files. It continuously failed and kept running useless things over and over.
I eventually had to rollback everything. I told it I'm unistalling it because it failed at averything. It apologized, then went to town modifying my code again!
I stopped it and scolded it and rolled back again and uninstalled it.
I had so much hope for this. Even though it's supposedly "free", I'm worse off having tried it that not used it at all. I'm going back to my paid $100/mo Claude plan and will stick to Claude Code, for now.