I thought Gemini 3 was pretty great, but I had no idea how good Claude Code is.

Gemini

• Pro: Free (through work), successfully used it to take a boilerplate Astro install and make it a fairly customised site.
• Con: Constantly disregarded standing instructions (and got all Marvin the Paranoid Android about it when called out). Made assumptions that were all too often not based in fact (example: this is an Astro project, therefore it uses Tailwind - even though GEMINI.md says it does not).

Claude

• Pro: Just gets it right. I spent a couple of hours on this minor redesign and at no point did I have to correct Claude or repeat an instruction to do (or not do) something. By the end I was just hitting yes on proposed code changes - I see how people feel comfortable enabling yolo mode.
• Con: Not free. That’s the whole list.

I should have done this sooner.