I've been switching back and forth between Claude Sonnet 4.5 or Composer 1 and Gemini 3.0 and I’m trying to figure out which model actually performs better for real-world coding tasks inside Cursor AI. I'm not looking for a general comparison.
I want feedback specifically in the context of how these models behave inside the Cursor IDE.
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Well, without rehashing the whole Claude vs. Codex drama again, we’re basically in the same situation except this time, somehow, the Claude Code + Sonnet 4.5 combo actually shows real strength.
I asked something I thought would be super easy and straightforward for Gemini 3.0 Pro.
I work in a fully dockerized environment, meaning every little Python module I have runs inside its own container, and they all share the same database. Nothing too complicated, right?
It was late at night, I was tired, and I asked Gemini 3.0 Pro to apply a small patch to one of the containers, redeploy it for me, and test the endpoint.
Well… bad idea. It completely messed up the DB container (no worries, I had backups even though it didn’t delete the volumes). It spun up a brand-new container, created a new database, and set a new password “postgres123”. Then it kept starting and stopping the module I had asked it to refactor… and since it changed the database, of course the module couldn’t connect anymore. Long story short: even with precise instructions, it failed, ran out of tokens, and hit the 5-hour limit.
So I reverted everything and asked Claude Code the exact same thing.
Five to ten minutes later: everything was smooth. No issues at all.
The refactor worked perfectly.
Conclusion:
Maybe everyone already knows this, but the best benchmarks even agentic ones are NOT good indicators of real-world performance. This all comes down to orchestration, and that’s exactly why so many companies like Factory.AI are investing heavily in this space.
Gemini 3 Pro is quite slow and keeps making more errors compared to Claude Sonnet 4.5 on Antigravity. It was fine at the start, but the more I used it, it is creating malformed edits and isn't able to even edit a single file?
I don't know if this is a bug or whether it's just that bad. Is anyone else facing problems?
Edit: FYI, I'm experiencing this both on the Low and High version on Fast. It is SO slow. It is taking up to few minutes just to give me an initial response.