Perplexity beats Gemini Pro

Friday, February 20th, 2026

Over the last couple of days I was working on a relatively complex software integration project for image generation with stable diffusion. I had dozens of different pieces from multiple websites to download, configure, integrate, and debug. None of it was particularly well documented. In the past, I would have read what documentation existed, most of which was out of date, experimented a lot, and asked a number of questions on Reddit or other forums. This time, instead of bothering a lot of people online, I decided to use LLMs and chatbots to assist me and explain to me in detail what I needed to do when and how to accomplish my task. The results weren’t pretty.
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