I tried to get Nano Banana Pro to edit an image, but it just handed me back the original picture unchanged—exactly the same problem I had with Nano Banana/Flash 2.5. It’s especially frustrating because the same prompt worked on the older model after a lot of tweaking. I only got one generation, so I’m left wondering if the new model is still just spitting out identical, unedited images.
Gemini felt dumb on November 21, 2025.
What the community said about Gemini on November 21, 2025. Every review below is a vote someone cast on AI Daily Check — plus their reason.
At a glance
48 people shared their experience with Gemini this day. 44% rated it dumb.
Every review from this day
Each card below is one Gemini review from November 21, 2025.
Friday, November 21, 2025
I tried feeding Gemini 3 a hefty 600‑1000 line code file with specific change instructions, hoping its stronger model would handle it. Instead, it hallucinated wildly, made random, poor edits, and left bugs behind. The tool’s limited context window forced me to keep chats tiny, and the loss of temperature control made it even harder to steer. It felt frustrating to see a supposedly upgraded model struggle with basic context.
I tried the latest Nano Banana Pro update and was blown away by how it cranked out manga‑style pages that look almost too good to be AI‑generated. The results were jaw‑dropping, with crisp panels and dynamic characters that felt ready for publication. While the quality was thrilling, the sheer realism also gave me a weird shiver, as if the tool was stepping into territory that feels a bit unsettling.
I opened a Gemini AI Studio chat and just left the window static, yet my RTX A2000 was humming at 99% GPU usage. Even with Firefox minimized, the token counter kept ticking and ate up resources. It felt wasteful and irritating, especially on a workstation that should handle it easily. The constant load made the whole experience feel sluggish and unnecessarily taxing.
I tried using Nano Banana Pro to convert whole novels into manhua panels, and I was genuinely blown away by how spot‑on the results were. The tool captured the story beats and visual style without the usual weird mismatches, so I felt a rush of excitement each time a new page rendered perfectly. It’s rare to see an AI handle such a niche task so cleanly, and I left the session feeling impressed and eager to push its limits further.
I rebuilt Windows 3.1 using AI Studio and was amazed that every app in the screenshot actually ran. The process felt surprisingly smooth, and the tool handled the legacy code and UI elements without major hiccups. Seeing the old software work in real time gave me a boost of confidence and a sense of accomplishment, turning a nostalgic idea into a functional prototype.
I tried the latest Gemini update, but it kept dropping the deep‑research capabilities I relied on. The tool felt gutted, giving shallow answers and missing critical details, which was really frustrating. I just want to go back to Gemini 2.5 until they sort out the new release.
I asked Gemini 3 Pro Preview in AI Studio to tweak a few lines in my mobile webapp docs, but instead it gutted the whole file and shuffled things I never wanted touched. It felt like the tool ignored my precise request, forcing me to clean up unwanted changes. I’m left wondering how to keep it from over‑rewriting entire sections.
I previously slammed Nano Banana, thinking it was just a weaker LoRA, but after actually testing it I was blown away. I’m now able to generate outputs without even feeding a reference most of the time, which feels unbelievably smooth. The experience was surprisingly seamless and has me pumped to see what Google rolls out next.
I kept trying to run prompts and half of them just blew up with an internal error, wasting tokens and time. Every time I hit “run” I’d get that generic crash screen, forcing me to redo my work or scrap the whole query. It was irritating to see the tool stall so often, and the wasted tokens made the experience feel costly and unreliable.
I went into 3.0 Pro expecting a solid upgrade, but after using it I felt it was only average—nothing broke, yet nothing blew me away either. The experience was unremarkable, leaving me thinking the tool was okay but not the impressive leap I hoped for.
I keep opening Gemini 3 in AI Studio and it spams me with a ton of extra text I never asked for. The clutter makes the responses hard to read and honestly it’s irritating enough to waste my time. I just want the core answer without all the filler, so I’m left feeling frustrated and wishing there was a way to clean it up.
I fired up Media io today just to edit a clip and was blown away by the new NanoBanana 2 plugin. I tossed an old, crusty video at it and watched the detail and colors snap into place like magic. The whole process was a breeze—drag, apply, done—and the results felt almost too good to be real. I’m genuinely spoiled by this update.
I tried using Gemini and noticed the responses were painfully slow. Each query took much longer than I expected, turning a quick answer hunt into a waiting game. The tool’s lag made the experience frustrating and broke my flow, even though the answers themselves were decent. I ended up feeling impatient and doubtful about relying on it for time‑sensitive tasks.
I spent two hours watching Gemini 3 struggle to spin up a simple virtual environment, constantly hitting quota limits and error messages. The whole process was exasperating, especially when I remembered Claude could do the same task in milliseconds. The constant failures made me feel stuck and angry, wishing I could just ditch Claude and switch to Google—but the current experience left me feeling frustrated and powerless.
I tried using the AI’s text generation feature, but I kept hitting a wall—some characters would appear correctly while others vanished or got mangled. The inconsistency was maddening, making me double‑check everything and lose momentum. It felt like the tool was half‑working, forcing me to waste time fixing simple output errors.
I kept trying to get nano banana to create diagrams and mock technical drawings from my prompts, reference photos, and sketches, but it just wouldn't follow the instructions. The outputs were off‑topic and unusable, leaving me frustrated and stuck, constantly tweaking prompts without any useful results.
I spent hours generating 3D cartoon poses with nano banana that looked spot‑on, then tried to restyle them into anime. Every result looked like a different person—my hat even morphs each time, and sometimes the tool just spits back the original image. I also gave whisk a go, but it behaved the same way. I’m frustrated and looking for a reliable way to batch‑convert these images without losing the original poses.
I’ve been testing Sonnet 4.5 on Antigravity for two projects—a 3D parkour game with a custom level editor built in Three JS and a full‑stack furniture website. Most of the time (about 95%) it nails complex, multi‑step queries, letting me move forward fast. The Gemini models felt too verbose, so I stick with Sonnet 4.5 despite its 10‑20 prompt limit every five hours.
I tried Gemini 3 after buying the Ultra subscription, hoping for an upgrade over Claude Code and Codex. The antigravity tool was a nightmare—errors, wrong function added, and I had to keep prompting it to continue. The CLI UI was ugly, unscrollable, and couldn’t resume conversations unless I tagged them. Still, the core model impressed me, and I’ll keep using it, but the experience feels buggy and frustrating compared to other tools.
I tried using Nano Banana Pro to create realistic images and it kept refusing my prompts. Even simple meme ideas or everyday scenes were blocked, leaving me stuck and frustrated. The constant rejections made the tool feel worthless for any practical picture generation, wiping out any confidence I had in its usefulness.
I tried to turn off Gemini’s Google‑search grounding after telling it to search just once. Instead, every reply kept appending the whole “grounding with Google search” block, complete with the [1] references. The extra text polluted my outputs and made the conversation feel cluttered and frustrating, so I couldn’t get a clean answer.
I keep getting raw **bold** tags in Gemini’s replies instead of proper bold text, and it’s happening in every answer. It’s irritating because the formatting is completely broken, making the content hard to read and forcing me to clean it up manually. I expected a polished output, but the tool’s behavior was frustrating and left me wasting time fixing something that should just work.
I’ve been really impressed with Gemini 3’s reasoning and answer quality, often preferring it over ChatGPT. But my workflow relies heavily on voice dictation, and Gemini trips me up: the web version mishears words and struggles with language switches, and the mobile app cuts off recordings after a few seconds. ChatGPT’s voice mode feels smoother and more reliable, so I can’t ditch its subscription yet. I’m hoping Google will tighten up the voice experience soon.
I tested Gemini 3 Pro to see if it could tell whether my hand‑drawn fan art was AI‑generated. The model insisted it was created by AI, even though I made every line from scratch. That mis‑identification was frustrating and left me feeling uneasy, because the tool isn’t ready for this kind of verification yet.
I asked the model to turn a sketch of the old Nano Banana into a realistic photo, and the result blew me away. The transformation was spot‑on, capturing details I didn’t expect, and made me feel impressed with how the tool handled my request. It was a satisfying, almost delightful experience.
I played with the new Nano Banana Pro out of curiosity and was blown away. Instead of laboriously drafting ads in Figma, I tossed a vague prompt and the model churned out polished ad concepts, whiteboard sketches, and fresh angles I hadn’t imagined. I can now spin 10‑15 ideas in the time it used to take to craft one decent ad. As a solo founder, that speed and creativity feel like having a real partner, not just a text generator.
I was stunned when I tried the new Antigravity feature—what usually took me a couple of days with Claude was cranked out in just 15‑30 minutes. The speed boost felt incredible, and I could see my project moving forward instantly. It was thrilling to watch the code appear so quickly, turning a tedious slog into a rapid win.
I tried using Nano Banana Pro to create an image, but it kept missing the mark on the first attempt. When I gave follow‑up prompts to correct it, the tool just spitted out the same wrong picture over and over. The experience was irritating—each correction felt ignored, and I ended up wasting time chasing a result it couldn’t deliver.
I tried the Nano Banana Pro 4K with a single prompt and was amazed by how smoothly it handled the request. The output was spot‑on, detailed, and required almost no tweaking, which made the whole experience feel surprisingly efficient. While it didn’t blow me away completely, the tool’s consistency and polish left me genuinely impressed.
I’ve been grinding on the Gemini 3 API and Studio nonstop since it launched, and it’s been a game‑changer. It whips up prompts that feel magically spot‑on, even helping me push the limits and jailbreak ChatGPT a bit. The tool’s output was impressively strong, making my workflow flow smoothly—though I’m already bracing for the inevitable nerf that usually follows when an AI gets too powerful.
I tried the Nano Banana Pro to capture game screenshots and was pleasantly surprised by how smoothly it worked. The tool handled different lighting and fast motion without lag, and the output looked crisp and ready to share. I felt a mix of relief and excitement seeing it nail the shots I’d struggled with before.
I’ve been using Gemini for weeks, and the recent “engagement” hard‑coding completely broke it. Every answer feels forced, repetitive, and often wrong, making simple queries a nightmare. I tried to rely on it for quick help, but it now churns out useless filler, causing me to waste time and lose trust in the model.
I’ve been working with the Gemini 3 preview and at first it felt promising, but soon it turned into a nightmare. The model just rushes to spit out huge blocks of code without any planning, repeatedly missing the context of what I’m building. I have to discard most of its output, and even when I try to pause it, it only slows for a couple of messages before diving back in. The experience is frustrating enough that the tool is becoming unusable.
I was genuinely amazed when I finally saw an AI generate a map that looked like it could belong in a real game world. For years I’d tried tools that produced vague, cartoonish layouts, but this one actually nailed terrain, roads, and landmarks in a way that felt believable. Watching the output unfold was thrilling, and it left me eager to dive deeper into what else it can create.
I tried Gemini 3 with English and thought it was decent, but when I switched to Vietnamese the experience became surprisingly enjoyable. The responses felt more natural and even a bit humorous, turning routine queries into a fun interaction. It wasn’t groundbreaking, but it definitely exceeded the mediocre expectations I’d heard about.
I’m thrilled with Nano Banana Pro – it feels like the best image generator I’ve tried. Coming from a fan of Google’s Imagen 4, I love how it keeps the strong prompt adherence while adding powerful editing tools. The jump to native 2K and optional 4K via the API fixes the old 1K limit, and the new aspect‑ratio flexibility is a game‑changer. It’s clear Google heard the community, and the experience feels truly special.
I was chatting for hours and hit about 600 k tokens when suddenly the whole thing froze—no new updates, no way to send another prompt. It just dead‑ended, leaving me stuck mid‑conversation. I felt completely blocked and frustrated, because the tool just stopped working and I couldn't recover my progress.
I tossed the prompt “A bustling market on a distant alien planet, inspired by Bladerunner. Photorealistic sci‑fi style.” into Nano Banana Pro and was pleasantly surprised. The generated scene was crisp, vivid and kept the sci‑fi vibe I wanted. The consistency was surprisingly strong, and I felt the tool really delivered what I asked for without the usual hiccups.
I was excited to see the new pro‑model infographic in AI Studio, but zooming in revealed a disappointing mess. The buoyancy arrow points down, completely wrong, and the surface‑tension label reads “aces the largtty,” which is just gibberish. It even invents a fake word “splume” for momentum transfer. The visuals looked promising, yet the incorrect arrows and nonsensical text made the tool feel frustrating and unreliable.
I gave a random comic strip to Nano Banana Pro to color it and was pleasantly surprised by the overall look—it turned out pretty good. Still, a few details fell short, and I felt a bit let down by those rough edges. Now I’m trying to figure out the right prompting tricks to get those problem areas fixed and achieve a flawless result.
I asked Gemini Web on my 3 Pro for historical facts and was shocked by the weak, inaccurate answers it spitted out. The search results felt outdated and irrelevant, making the whole interaction frustrating. Compared to OpenAI’s search, Google’s AI seemed clumsy, leaving me disappointed and questioning its reliability.
I was blown away by the results – the AI‑generated image was so consistent it literally made my jaw drop. Compared to the original Melissa Shield reference, parts of the AI version even looked better. Seeing that level of quality from Nano Banana Pro made me feel impressed and excited about what it can do.
I tried using Banana Pro for heavy image workloads and kept hitting flawed generations, forcing me to retry and tweak prompts constantly. It felt like a waste of time, and the pricing screamed absurd—$20 for Gemini AI Pro gives me 1,000 images daily, but Studio’s $0.13 per image would balloon to $4,000 at full use. The tool’s behavior was frustrating and far too pricey.
I was blown away by Nano Banana Pro’s ability to color manga. I tossed a simple prompt—"Color this as best as you can, make it epic and cinematic"—and the result looked like official art, spanning two pages with cinematic flair. The tool’s output felt stunningly professional, turning my modest request into a masterpiece that could have graced the published series.
I asked Gemini for the Mac reset key and it suddenly went haywire, spamming nonsense half‑way through the answer. The tool’s behavior was irritating and made it impossible to get the simple info I needed, leaving me frustrated with its malfunction.
I tried using Gemini 3.0 pro to size a massive Python file, and it completely mis‑gauged the line count. It guessed around 1200 lines when the script was actually over 2200, leaving out a whole thousand lines of code. The tool’s estimate felt careless and frustrating, making me doubt its ability to even read the file properly.
I was absolutely blown away by Gemini’s nanobanana pro output. I fed it a detailed prompt for a photorealistic 1990s Hong Kong portrait, complete with a face reference, retro lighting, and vintage newspaper walls. The image came out stunningly authentic, and the AI even spun three seamless videos with music on Instagram. Seeing the glossy lips, messy hair, and neon‑tinged shadows felt like watching a high‑budget film come to life—totally exceeded my expectations.
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