Last year, I discussed Google Next 2024 announcement of its Google Code Assist AI programming helper. It offered a lot of interesting integration and productivity possibilities for programmers. But it was dogged by one irredeemable limitation: the Gemini implementation couldn't code its way out of a paper bag at the time . When I ran my coding tests last year, Gemini Advanced, based on Gemini 1.5, failed three out of four tests. So, in 2024, when I talked about Google's powerf
