Should we totally give up on Gemini for coding?

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Summary

A user reports that Gemini 3.1 Pro significantly underperforms Codex and Claude for coding, likening it to an inexperienced junior developer, and doubts Google's ability to compete in frontier coding models.

Been building with Codex (Gpt 5.5), Sonnet 4.6, recently tried Gemini 3.1 pro. While Codex and Claude are kind of on-par in terms of the quality of the work, I found Gemini 3.1 Pro to be like an inexperienced, junior SWE who turns in half-baked work most of the time. Is it just me? Has anyone managed to harness 3.1 Pro to be as good as Codex/Claude? 3.1 Pro is supposed to be “frontier” at this point, but now I feel like Google will never make it into the league of frontier model for coding, sadly
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