Gemini 4 Argon fails the 3D globe dashboard frontend test
The author ran the same Three.js 3D globe dashboard test on Gemini 4 Argon and found a skewed logo, a texture that needed several redo rounds, and a 2D view that squashed the globe into a flat disc, concluding it still trails Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra.
Gemini 4 Argon is out. But how good is it at frontend, really? I put it through my usual 3D globe dashboard test. One prompt, one reference image, built with Three.js. The result is just okay. Three things stood out: 1. It got the logo wrong. It came out skewed. 2. The first globe texture it produced didn't match the brief at all. It took 3 to 4 more rounds to get to what you see here, and it's still not great. 3. It got the 2D view wrong. Switching to 2D should unroll the globe into a flat map. Instead, it squashed the globe into a thin disc. I've run this demo dozens of times. On this task, Gemini 4 Argon is still well behind Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra. Honestly, even Haiku did better on this one.