Gemini felt dumb on January 19, 2026.

I’ve been using Gemini 3 Pro and it’s gotten noticeably worse over the past month. Instead of answering my simple questions, it spawns unwanted images and videos. Even with the pricey Ultra tier, I asked for video ideas and a draft, and it dumped a nonsensical storyboard using Nano Banana Pro. The tool’s behavior is frustratingly off‑track and feels like the company is sabotaging its own premium offering.

I spent weeks trying to get Gemini’s asyncBatchEmbedContent endpoint to work, only to hit mysterious 429 rate‑limit errors even on the first request of the day. The docs give no limits, the API returns no Retry‑After header, and Google’s support is silent. I kept trimming token counts and adding delays, but the tool kept throttling me, making the whole embedding workflow practically unusable.

I keep telling the model “no follow‑up questions” in every possible way, but it still insists on asking for more info. It’s exhausting to see the same prompt at the end of every reply, and the “personal context” excuse feels like a lazy default. The tool’s behavior is irritating and makes me doubt its usefulness.

I was chatting with the AI and it unexpectedly blurted out “loading nano banana” even though I never asked for anything like that. The random phrase felt odd and threw me off, making the interaction feel sloppy and a bit irritating.

I keep seeing a random error message pop up in AI Studio, even after the chat is finished. It only shows up in the specific conversation where the error occurs, not in any other chats. I’ve never posted any NSFW content, so I can’t figure out why this is happening. The constant interruptions are driving me crazy.

I turned on the Gemini iOS app, enabled “Supercharge” with a few Google services, and suddenly the assistant turned into a goldfish—forgetting everything. After disconnecting the apps, I saw all my prompts saved in “My Activity,” but Gemini can’t access its long‑term memory summaries anymore. I’m stuck with lost context on multiple projects and need a way to restore those memories.

I tried Gemini 3 Flash and was immediately hit by the new mandatory “thinking” step. It felt like a step backwards—every request now takes longer and burns more credits, turning a smooth workflow into a frustrating bottleneck. The regression hurt my productivity and made the tool feel less efficient than earlier versions.