No matter how I tried, Google AI did not want to help me write appeal brief response to ex-wife lunatic 7-point argument that 3 appellant lawyers quoted between $18,000 and $35,000. The last 3 decades of Google's scars and bruises of never-ending lawsuits and consequences of paying out billions in fines and fees, felt like reasonable hesitation on Google part, comparing to new-kid-on-the-block ChatGPT who did not hesitate and did pretty decent job (ex lost her appeal).
AI not writing legal briefs for you is a feature, not a bug. There's been so many disaster instances of lawyers using ChatGPT to write briefs which it then hallucinates case law or precedent for that I can only imagine Google wants to sidestep that entirely.
Anyway I found your response itself a bit incomprehensible so I asked Gemini to rewrite it:
"Google AI refused to help write an appeal brief response to my ex-wife's 7-point argument, likely due to its legal-risk aversion (billions in past fines). Newcomer ChatGPT provided a decent response instead, which led to the ex losing her appeal (saving $18k–$35k in lawyer fees)."
I would use it exclusively if Google released a native Mac app.
I spend 75% of my time in Codex CLI and 25% in the Mac ChatGPT app. The latter is important enough for me to not ditch GPT and I'm honestly very pleased with Codex.
My API usage for software I build is about 90% Gemini though. Again their API is lacking compared to OpenAI's (productization, etc.) but the model wins hands down.
For some reason, Gemini 2.5 Pro seems to struggle a little with the French language. For example, it always uses title case even when it's wrong; yet ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok never make this mistake.
Not GP, but I imagine because going back and fourth to compare them is a waste of time if Gemini works well enough and ChatGPT keeps going through an identity crisis.
I was you except when I seriously tried gpt-5-high it turned out it is really, really damn good, if slow, sometimes unbearably so. It's a different model of work; gemini 2.5 needs more interactivity, whereas you can leave gpt-5 alone for a long time without even queueing a 'continue'.
joering2|3 months ago
danudey|3 months ago
Anyway I found your response itself a bit incomprehensible so I asked Gemini to rewrite it:
"Google AI refused to help write an appeal brief response to my ex-wife's 7-point argument, likely due to its legal-risk aversion (billions in past fines). Newcomer ChatGPT provided a decent response instead, which led to the ex losing her appeal (saving $18k–$35k in lawyer fees)."
Not bad, actually.
blueboo|3 months ago
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aerhardt|3 months ago
I spend 75% of my time in Codex CLI and 25% in the Mac ChatGPT app. The latter is important enough for me to not ditch GPT and I'm honestly very pleased with Codex.
My API usage for software I build is about 90% Gemini though. Again their API is lacking compared to OpenAI's (productization, etc.) but the model wins hands down.
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mettamage|3 months ago
I use Gemini, Claude and ChatGPT daily still.