> A good consideration; just one point from my side: as far as I am aware (but I may be wrong), Gemini is not known to perform well in an agentic framework.
I used it for a month over the summer, right before they were going through the migration to antigravity. It was a fine workhorse IMO, no complaints from me.
You might be one of the rare few doing that. According to Stripe Economics, the supposed SaaSpocalypse brought about by AI actually resulted in accelerated revenue growth for SaaS. Companies just aren't building these custom SaaS-killers like HN would have us believe.
I've heard from my community that folks in large enterprises are blowing billions on AI with nothing to show for it. They have committees that decide how AI is used, and most of it is a fill out a form and go through tons of bureaucracy and needs buy in from multiple levels of leadership. By the time you do all that, you're better off just getting funding for a team to build you that internal (or external) tool internally or it's a SaaS that can be bought.
Like I said earlier with my tool metaphor, AI isn't a magical tool that can just be sprinkled anywhere for efficiency gains. Human systems are still a huge hurdle to efficient workplaces. That problem has to be solved first, and no one has figured out how to solve that in an enterprise setting.
Exactly what I've been doing. I don't need the all-powerful GPT-6 Math Scoopa, or Opus T-1000, just to write react, svelte and C# for me; my local Qwen3.8 is more than capable, and I can switch to Deepseek and GLM on OpenRouter when I need speed. I just pop in to read the comments on HN for the latest drama and navel gazing, then I click the Hide button and move on. Couldn't give a wooden nickel what their latest and greatest models are capable of anymore, it's just PR buzz.
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