Gemini 2.5 and now 3 seem to continue their trend of being horrific in agentic tasks, but almost always impress me with the single first shot request.
Claude Sonnet is way better about following up and making continuous improvements during a long running session.
For some reason Gemini will hard freeze-up on the most random queries, and when it is able to successfully continue past the first call, it only keeps a weird summarized version of its previous run available to itself, even though it's in the payload. It's a weird model.
My take is that, it's world-class at one-shotting, and if a task benefits from that, absolutely use it.
Claude Sonnet is way better about following up and making continuous improvements during a long running session.
For some reason Gemini will hard freeze-up on the most random queries, and when it is able to successfully continue past the first call, it only keeps a weird summarized version of its previous run available to itself, even though it's in the payload. It's a weird model.
My take is that, it's world-class at one-shotting, and if a task benefits from that, absolutely use it.