I gave Gemini 3.6 Flash and GPT-5.6 access to my entire digital life — here’s which one actually helped me…

Both OpenAI and Google have released major new AI models within days of each other. OpenAI launched GPT-5.6, and Google has followed up with Gemini 3.6 Flash. While both companies have talked up the coding and developer features of these models, they also power the consumer versions of ChatGPT and Gemini.

So, rather than measuring them with programming benchmarks, I wanted to find out which is actually better at the kind of messy, everyday problems most people use AI to solve.

For this comparison, I matched Google's Gemini 3.6 Flash against GPT-5.6 Sol using its default Medium reasoning setting, since both are intended to be the standard high-quality models that paid subscribers will use for most tasks.

My digital life

So, I gave them my entire digital life for the week ahead.

I uploaded:

• Bank statements
• My calendar (they had access to my calendar app and I also...

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