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Is Gemini 4 actually good or just benchmaxxed?

Do users find Google Gemini 4 Argon useful and reliable beyond its benchmark scores?

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Updated Nov 8Since Oct 13

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@GoogleStarting from a single Nano Banana image, Gemini 4 Argon created this finished 3D cathedral audio-reactive scene. Driving Blender MCP in an autonomous loop in @Antigravity to: 🏛️ Sculpt in@AndroidDevGemini 4 Argon is here! → https://t.co/GPyFZ7Usuw We tested it out and turned a basic 2D maps app into a 3D world. Watch our demo to see it in action. Feeling inspired to try it out for yo@gregisenbergI’ve been playing with Gemini 4 Argon for 7 days — Google gave me early access and sponsored today’s episode. 10 Insights using Gemini 4 Argon (for people who want to make cool things with @GeminiAppOur team built a playable 3D Wizard Chess game from scratch with Gemini 4 Argon using Google Antigravity in the Gemini app for Mac. Coordinate a multi-agent Blender workflow to model, desig@aakashguptaI gave Gemini 4 Argon five prompts of about 50 words each, sent every one once, and got five apps back in 328 seconds for $0.37 total. One of them needs a redo. According to Google's post,@freddierI'm trying to like Gemini 4 Argon, so hard. Half the time, the Gemini app will crash or forget a prompt. Most of the time, it times out or takes forever to output first token. I guess AI @signullli played around with gemini 4 for coding, it was underwhelming for many cases. for even tiny code bases it was just not performing well at all relative to opus. so many hallucinations (as me@CodeByPoonam🚨Google is officially rolling out Argon 4 I tried building a dancing doll with it. It absolutely nailed it. → Change the outfit color → Pick skin and hair → Switch dance moves → Adjust tem@JulianGoldieSEOI built 3D worlds, a game and websites with Gemini 4 Argon and Opus 5.5. The model that wins the benchmarks didn't win the builds. Here's what I found when I put them side by side. Opus 5@Awesome_O_AIgoogle may have finally closed the gap with openai and anthropic. gemini 4 argon is here, and the early testing looks seriously impressive. after spending a week testing it across coding, @danshipperBREAKING: Gemini 4 is OUT and it's SURPRISINGLY GOOD?? I admit I was ready to trash this model qhen I saw the benchmarks but six of us at @every spent the past week testing it across codin@PawelHurynSo I tested DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 on real work. 2 repos. 105 hidden bugs. Find and fix what you can. The first results: Muse Wonder Full 1.0 (max): 42 Opus 5.5 (max): 41.7 Gemini 4 Arg@Saboo_Shubham_Gemini 4 Argon is now LIVE. Here's how we are using Argon on our hardest engineering problems: - Refactored a ~6M line legacy folder in Chrome in weeks - Ran overnight on ADK and cut se@ammaarI used Gemini 4 Argon to make Subway Surfers for the new flying Tesla Roadster 🚀 Fly over moving traffic, hit the thrusters to barrel roll in the sky, and collect air power-ups to set a hig@fofrAIA pelican on a bike as a code art quine. Running the code produces the next frame, and so on. Made by Gemini 4 Argon. https://t.co/4HFLNIaeu4@ai_for_successTrying out Gemini 4 Argon inside Antigravity with FreeCAD. You can easily set up the MCP server and let the agent build things for you. This was just a quick test , I asked it to build a "Br@PovilasKoropYay, Gemini 4 Argon is in Antigravity on Pro plan, and I could benchmark it! But... wow. It's just BAD. Like, UNUSABLE type of bad. Gemini Flash was better in Antigravity vs. others. Thi@rpnicksonAGENT WARS We asked the 6 top AI models to design, engineer and 3D print an egg capsule with the goal of protecting an egg from the tallest possible height. 🇺🇸 Google Gemini 4 Argon 🇺🇸 Ant@scaling01GPT-6.1 Sol, Opus 5.5 and Gemini 4 Argon identify most of the tested frontier lab researchers by name Argon answers much less reliably, because it often names a researcher’s former employer@everyWhen @danshipper needed to reorganize sections of "How Codex Happened," he turned to Gemini's Argon 4 and his Dot. He had Gemini 4 Argon work out the edits, then had Codex apply them as sug
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The views shaping the conversation

Recurring ideas, summarized across multiple conversations.

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Strong at 3D, interactive, and visual builds from single prompts

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Usage limits drain quickly and sessions can stall or error

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Benchmark strength doesn't match fabricated or wrong real-world output

76

Fast and inexpensive for many one-shot tasks

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Coding quality often trails Opus 5.5 on real code tasks

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Handles long multi-step agentic work across large projects

These are collected experiences, not a survey of all users. Errors and post miscalculations are possible.

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