53 engineers on Hacker News describe using Gemini first-hand: 19 endorse it, 8 regret it, 11 are mixed.
“I use gemini in prod via google cloud... for my niche they are the best for good quality at great speeds.”
mixed · production · 2 yr · hypendev · 2026-10-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Gemini is the only model that I still see regularly flat-out hallucinate, e.g. the other day it told me we were using a particular technology (Fivetran) on a project”
regret · production · sandcat_ · 2026-08-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run an agent company ... Gemini is great for computer use.”
endorse · production · pimeys · 2026-07-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“on the cost:quality:latency:adherence picture, flash wins hands down for structured extraction.”
endorse · production · urbsgpw · 2026-07-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We have products in prod that use Gemini because they're better than any other model at the specific task.”
endorse · production · deaux · 2026-07-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We found gemini 3 flash to be the best model as of now, when it comes to bang for the buck”
endorse · production · okwasniewski · 2026-06-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I keep getting notification from my tooling that gemini models are overloaded so we switched you to openai.”
regret · production · dzhiurgis · 2026-04-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we started seeing ~90% error rates getting 429s over the weekend. (So we switched to GPT 5.4 nano.)”
regret · production · jbellis · 2026-04-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I worked on a startup experimenting with gemini-2.0-flash... We found it to be extremely successful at needle-in-a-haystack type problems.”
endorse · production · elliotto · 2026-01-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I tried to use two AI models (ChatGPT 5.2 and the latest Gemini) to serve as ersatz Referees... it was an exercise in pointless, frustrating disaster. Never again.”
regret · personal · qubex · 2026-01-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I found Gemini to be pretty great at validating an exported KiCAD netlist against the relevant datasheets with a few caveats.”
mixed · personal · maz- · 2026-01-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Gemini 3 Preview is already doing better at some tasks (but frequently goes insane, sadly).”
mixed · personal · atombender · 2025-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“They are pretty good at writing code after I thoroughly described what to do, step by step. If you miss a small detail they get loose”
mixed · personal · 1 yr · zsoltkacsandi · 2025-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I’ve been using Google's Gemini for image generation, but the watermarks are often a hurdle for clean designs.”
mixed · personal · h2bomb · 2025-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have pushed Gemini 2.5 Pro further than I thought possible when it comes to ridiculously over complicated (by necessity) structured output.”
endorse · personal · teruakohatu · 2025-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Gemini / Antigravity to make a virtual pet for my kids using Love2D / lua.”
endorse · personal · boca_honey · 2025-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Gemini also sucks at search for some reason”
regret · personal · andai · 2025-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using gemini-3-flash the last few days and it is quite good”
endorse · personal · verdverm · 2025-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Ive been using 2.5 pro or flash a ton at work and the pro was not noticeably more accurate, but significantly slower, so I used flash way more.”
endorse · production · gorbot · 2025-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It's a prompt I've been using for years. Gemini has been the best of the bunch”
endorse · personal · eterm · 2025-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using 2.5 flash and it is pretty bad. 1 out of 5 answers it gives will be a lie.”
regret · personal · freedomben · 2025-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using the preview flash model exclusively since it came out, the speed and quality of response is all I need at the moment.”
endorse · personal · bearjaws · 2025-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have already many use cases in prod where Gemini Flash 2.0 did a great job, and that's an old model by today's standards”
endorse · production · epolanski · 2025-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Gemini handles every single one of my uses cases much better and consistently gives better answers. Only downsides are in the polish department”
mixed · personal · tenpoundhammer · 2025-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Nice, it works. Let's try using live video. Open the docs, you get it mentioned a bunch of times but 0 documentation on how to actually do it.”
mixed · personal · thecupisblue · 2025-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Only Google Gemini barely cut the mustard.”
mixed · personal · egberts1 · 2025-10-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“having much fun currently with gemini”
endorse · personal · wglb · 2025-09-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“have you ever try to get anything done well with Gemini? ... But Gemini? never again.”
regret · personal · fpia · 2025-07-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I used gemini to create a CAD file transposition tool that utilized a simple GUI tailor made for the files my company works with.”
endorse · production · Workaccount2 · 2025-06-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The performance of top-tier models is still unmatched.”
endorse · production · PaulShin · 2025-06-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I can ask Gemini 2.5 (1M context length) crazy things ... and get really good high quality answers.”
endorse · production · phyalow · 2025-04-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Gemini developer experience was stupidly easy. Easy to add a file "part" to a prompt.”
endorse · production · lazypenguin · 2025-02-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“sometimes the results are amazing, but you have to proofread it all because they occasionally go off the rails... Still overall a time saver.”
mixed · personal · richard_todd · 2024-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We have been using Gemini 1.5 Flash at enterprise scale... and we have yet to see hallucinations”
endorse · production · ajcp · 2024-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The models do just fine on "work" but are terrible for "thinking".”
mixed · personal · ComputerGuru · 2024-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Gemini Flash for free through the API using Cline for VS Code.”
mixed · personal · gman83 · 2024-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use Gemini flash in prod. The latency and cost is just unbeatable”
endorse · production · tempusalaria · 2024-10-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have tried using GPT4 & gemini extensively, and the amount of bullshit generated makes it unreliable if you don't already know the domain.”
regret · personal · huimang · 2024-03-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the default free chats with Gemini 3.5 Flash for general searching”
neutral · personal · einhard · 2026-11-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“at the moment Gemini Pro and Flash latest runs the show for you”
neutral · production · raxwan · 2026-10-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I ported over my busiest app stage from openrouter/gemini to haiku”
neutral · production · schmookeeg · 2026-10-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Gemini 3.8 Flash for a long time”
neutral · personal · fantasticwaddle · 2026-10-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I had been using Gemini to build OpenScad models.”
neutral · personal · zdp7 · 2026-10-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“made a bunch of workloads we had on Luna or Gemini 10x cheaper and 2x faster (previously used non reasoning version for latency reasons)”
neutral · production · zurfer · 2026-09-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I had a production image processing using Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (which is getting discontinued in October)”
neutral · production · testycool · 2026-09-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run Gemini fast for random end user queries for general staff.”
neutral · production · FuriouslyAdrift · 2026-09-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Where we used Gemini before Deepseek v4 Flash is taking the lead on price.”
neutral · production · pimeys · 2026-08-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“With Opus4.5, Gemini 3 and gpt 5.2, it's now 20%, maybe 50% if we only talk about personal code output.”
neutral · production · orwin · 2025-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've mainly been using claude code and a bit of Gemini/Amp/Droid”
neutral · personal · sixhobbits · 2025-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using composer-1 in Cursor for a few weeks and also switching back and forth between it, Gemini Flash 3, Claude Opus 4.5, Claude Sonnet 4.5 and GPT 5.2.”
neutral · production · santoriv · 2025-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Claude, Gemini and Codex are currently working together on implementing FIPA ACL inter agent communication”
neutral · personal · vmitro · 2025-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use Gemini 3 but only in specific high value use cases.”
neutral · personal · mark_l_watson · 2025-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“He ended up learning how to use Gemini to accelerate his learning”
neutral · personal · veesahni · 2024-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?