Gemini 2.5 Pro set a wide SOTA on the aider polyglot coding leaderboard [0]. It scored 73%, well ahead of the previous 65% SOTA from Sonnet 3.7.
I use LLMs to improve aider, which is >30k lines of python. So not a toy codebase, not greenfield.
I used Gemini 2.5 Pro for the majority of the work on the latest aider release [1]. This is the first release in a very long time which wasn't predominantly written using Sonnet.
The biggest challenge with Gemini right now is the very tight rate limits. Most of my Sonnet usage lately is just when I am waiting for Gemini’s rate limits to cool down.
I actually get asked for screencasts a lot, so I made recently made some [0].
The recording of adding support for 100+ new coding languages with tree-sitter [1] shows some pretty advanced usage. It includes using aider to script downloading a collection of files, and using ad-hoc bash scripts to have aider modify a collection of files.
I use LLMs to improve aider, which is >30k lines of python. So not a toy codebase, not greenfield.
I used Gemini 2.5 Pro for the majority of the work on the latest aider release [1]. This is the first release in a very long time which wasn't predominantly written using Sonnet.
The biggest challenge with Gemini right now is the very tight rate limits. Most of my Sonnet usage lately is just when I am waiting for Gemini’s rate limits to cool down.
[0] https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards/
[1] https://aider.chat/docs/faq.html#what-llms-do-you-use-to-bui...