I have claude, codex, cursor and kiro, all most basic teir and swap around. I like anthropic the best. I would have upgraded to Claude Max 20x by now (and dropped the others) if you would just incldue an amount of fable in the subscription. I would have done it on the first of this month if I'd know fable would be included until the 19th. However I'm not sure I want to at all as I feel you will just rug pull me or string me along in another way and constantly be threatening to change things. I have other stuff to think about, the last thing I want is my tool provider constantly changing their mind on things, making me waste mental energy on -p or fable access.
I don't really want to but it would be so much easier to just go with codex right now...
I would love a service that I could upload these chats to (anonymously) so that those developing open models can have it as training data and not just the closed model companies. My understanding is that it’s very valuable, look what cursor have managed to train. Obviously some filtering so that only chats or projects you want to share get shared would need to be in order.
Is that not worth running the benchmark on to prove or disprove this anyway? This would send a strong signal to google to get their act together and save me from wasting tokens selecting high.
Out of curiosity how are benchmark runs generally funded? It would obviously be great to test them all on all reasoning levels and in and out of their native harnesses. Maybe even in pi / opencode / cursor but I get this would get prohibitively expensive unless you have funding or free tokens.
Thanks for your efforts thus far. Looking forward to seeing more.
Im just replying to my own comment to praise the team for the latest update. They have fixed the speed issue and the text is now a sane width on my screen.
Well done and thank you.
If I was to ask for more there are a few things that Claude and Codex are doing better on.
Way more integrations / skills. I wish I could use MCPs and skills here.
Modern design and feel too. This design, while native, feels very outdated
I was essentially installing the web app as a PWA. Why? This allows me to set a deterministic keyboard shortcut to open gemini, in my case super + C, as if it were a native app. Downside is that it eats some ram. I haven’t benchmarked this I have no idea how heavy on ram this really is. FWIW I’m fine spending ram on this if it improves my workflow, which it does.
I've had the gemini web app in a safari embedded browser tab for 6+months its worked great as a local app. (M1 Pro base spec)
I set Super + C set to open it.
First impressions of the native app:
I think I will save RAM and it will be faster - Cool.
Download, install, sign in - Easy.
Change the keyboard shortcuts - Simple.
cmd + N to open a new chat - better than cmd + shift + O in the web app.
Back to work, a few moments pass.
super + C - ... wait ... there is a noticable delay in opening the app?
Maybe try the new mini chat? - Same delay 800+ms?
Thats annoying, every other app on my mac switches instantly?
Why is this slow? The delay long enough that you break my flow and make me think spending the RAM is worth it for the old web version? Whats the point of native if its slow?
Second grip - the text layout is too wide to read comfortably. At least give me the option to put it in a more narrow layout. I use every app full screen so reading text across the full width of my screen is pretty awkward.
Anyway I'll give it a go and see if it grows on me but right now the web app feels more polished and responsive so I will likely switch back.
It would be great to be able to kick of a chatbot convo to go deeper on something each time you have answered. Chat for a bit to deepen understanding and read around, then pop back out and continue to the next question when your satisfied you've understood the concept.
Agree on colours. The Electronics topic was white on yellow, completely unreadable.
Of course you can do the planning and reviewing by hand but sota models do a pretty great job, especially in review (please still read the code).