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Ask HN: How did Gemini go from being awful to incredible back to awful?

7 points by wewewedxfgdf ↗ HN
What happened?

Gemini 12 months ago was dead last the worst of all LLMS.

Then it streaked miles ahead of the others to be absolutely unbelievably good.

Then a month or so ago it turned back into being garbage. I waited for it to be fixed but it has remained bad.

I do not understand.

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verdverm
The Gemini 3 series are far better than 2.5, which explains the first half

I haven't experienced any degradation myself, but many times people attribute this to companies running quantified versions of the model during peak demand

blast
I haven't noticed it being awful again. Can you give examples?
ChildOfChaos
"Then a month or so ago it turned back into being garbage. I waited for it to be fixed but it has remained bad."

You have not provided any evidence for that or explained what you mean. Are you using a specific version of Gemini via a service, api, Gemini app? AI studio? etc? I have noticed zero issues.

But in the last month Gemini 3 flash was released, are you getting confused between models? (Although in my experience Gemini 3 flash is excellent)

owebmaster
It was never great in my opinion, it got a second place for a while but then Claude got the lead
APrem-7
yea even i was baffled by this
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