Gemini felt dumb on November 7, 2025.

I keep using Gemini’s Productivity Planner, but every day it spits out the same bogus work brief—mentioning “project Phoenix,” “Alex Chen,” and “Budget Sign‑off” even after I delete and restart the prompt. It’s a consistent hallucination that wastes my time and makes planning frustrating. I’m looking for anyone who’s seen this or has a fix.

I’ve been using Gemini for a while and it used to handle my prompts flawlessly, but lately it’s started slipping up on tasks it previously nailed. I tried the same queries and now it spits out incorrect info or garbles the output. The decline is noticeable and frustrating, making me question whether I can rely on it any longer.

I tried using Gemini for a coding task and was instantly disappointed. The assistant kept misunderstanding my instructions, producing syntax errors and irrelevant snippets. Every time I asked for a simple function, it spouted nonsense or missed crucial details, making the whole experience frustrating and a waste of time.

I rely on Gemini to OCR text and always tell it to keep line breaks, but most of the time it just ignores me and returns garbled formatting even though it claims it succeeded. I've tried dozens of prompt variations—preserve line breaks, preserve formatting, keep paragraph structure—but it still messes up. GPT does it right, though it's slower and pricier, which is frustrating.

I keep trying to get Gemini to run the code interpreter for my Excel and PDF data analysis, but it’s hit‑or‑miss. Most of the time the model forgets it can spawn code, so I have to repeat instructions or resort to work‑arounds. I even tried custom instructions, but they barely help. The inconsistency is really frustrating and slows my workflow.