I continue to find Gemini 2.5 Pro to be the most capable model. I leave Cursor on "Auto" model selection but all of my directed interactions are with Gemini. My process right now is to ask Gemini for high-level architecture discussions and broad-stroke implementation task break downs, then I use Cursor to validate and execute on those plans, then Gemini to review the generated code.
That process works pretty well but not perfectly. I have two examples where Gemini suggested improvements during the review stage that were actually breaking.
As an aside, I was investigating the OpenAI APIs and decided to use ChatGPT since I assumed it would have the most up-to-date information on its own APIs. It felt like a huge step back (it was the free model so I cut it some slack). It not only got its own APIs completely wrong [1], but when I pasted the url for the correct API doc into the chat it still insisted that what was written on the page was the wrong API and pointed me back to the page I had just linked to justify it's incorrectness. It was only after I prompted that the new API was possibly outside of its training data that it actually got to the correct analysis. I also find the excessive use of emojis to be juvenile, distracting and unhelpful.
That process works pretty well but not perfectly. I have two examples where Gemini suggested improvements during the review stage that were actually breaking.
As an aside, I was investigating the OpenAI APIs and decided to use ChatGPT since I assumed it would have the most up-to-date information on its own APIs. It felt like a huge step back (it was the free model so I cut it some slack). It not only got its own APIs completely wrong [1], but when I pasted the url for the correct API doc into the chat it still insisted that what was written on the page was the wrong API and pointed me back to the page I had just linked to justify it's incorrectness. It was only after I prompted that the new API was possibly outside of its training data that it actually got to the correct analysis. I also find the excessive use of emojis to be juvenile, distracting and unhelpful.
1. https://chatgpt.com/share/681ba964-0240-800c-8fb8-c23a2cae09...