Gemini felt dumb on December 26, 2025.

I tried using Gemini 3 to analyze a YouTube video and it just hung forever—nothing happened no matter how many times I retried. The post even pinpoints a root cause and gives a tiny reproducible example, showing how the model just loops endlessly. The experience was maddening and completely blocked my workflow.

I was using Gemini for a project and asked it to summarize a checklist from our current session, but it started hallucinating old details and then half of my recent 24‑hour chat history vanished. I tried incognito, clearing the cache, even reinstalling the app, but nothing helped. Support says many are reporting the same “chat couldn’t be loaded” issue. It’s frustrating and risky when I can’t trust the tool to keep my work intact.

I tried Gemini 3’s new vision features and was genuinely impressed. It spotted a barely‑visible skin redness on a face that even my sharp eyes missed, and it read tiny text that I struggled with. In a silhouette‑count challenge we tied, matching its score. The tool’s ability to notice subtle visual details felt surprisingly powerful, even if it’s still young in other areas.

I’ve been swapping between GPT and Gemini, now using Gemini full‑time after the 3.0 launch. While I like Google’s interface, I keep bumping into a frustrating limitation: Gemini hardly ever searches the web, so it can’t answer up‑to‑date queries. When I asked it for a JSON description of “Nano Banana Pro,” it simply said it didn’t know. A dedicated “search the web” button would have saved me a lot of back‑and‑forth. I’m curious if others hit the same roadblock or prefer Gemini’s current style.

I kept feeding images into Nano Banana and each time the JPEG‑like noise got worse. I tried the obvious fix—downscale then upscale—but the output was still trashy. The tool's behavior was frustrating; instead of clearing up the artifacts, it seemed to amplify them, leaving me with low‑quality results and a lot of wasted effort.

I asked Gemini 3 to pull Google results for upcoming concerts, expecting a simple list. Instead, it churned out completely invented events every single time, even after I called out the fake data. It apologized, claimed search issues, then gave another bogus list—ten times in a row. Switching to Gemini 3 Pro finally produced real results, highlighting a glaring flaw in the basic model’s search tool.

I tried asking Gemini Flash about a Steam link I posted, but its reply went off the rails—full of pompous accusations about “gaslighting” and bizarre claims that the game was a Hitman mod. The answer was tangled, irrelevant, and felt like the model was more interested in showing off than actually helping, leaving me frustrated and amused at the same time.

I set up Gemini with a Nano Banana Pro to crank out hyper‑realistic lingerie ads. The safety filter kept blocking me, so I had to rephrase everything as “luxury advertising” and focus on artistic composition. After tweaking the prompts, it finally produced the images I wanted, but the workaround felt cumbersome and the results were good enough—not mind‑blowing.