Gemini felt dumb on March 25, 2026.

I tried using Gemini to create kawaii‑style images of characters, but it kept hitting a third‑party content restriction and refusing to generate anything. The tool’s response was “I can’t generate the image right now…” which was pretty frustrating because I was stuck editing prompts with no progress.

I’ve been wrestling with Gemini 3.1 Pro for weeks, and every time I try a longer or more complex prompt it just “melts down.” The responses become incoherent, jump off topic, and sometimes stop halfway. It’s a constant source of frustration because I can’t rely on it for anything beyond simple queries, and the lingering bug feels like a huge waste of time.

I’ve been trying to use the model these past few days, but it’s been painfully sluggish and keeps dropping my generation attempts. Each query feels like an endless wait, and the constant failures are wearing me down. I’m left wondering if it’s just me or if the service is broadly lagging, because the slowdown has really hampered my workflow.

I was excited to try the new “vibe coding” experience in Build mode, but it instantly hit a wall—a critical flaw that made the whole thing unusable. Every time I tried to generate or test code, the studio crashed or produced nonsensical snippets, forcing me to abandon the session. The tool’s behavior was not just disappointing; it felt dangerous because it wasted hours and could have introduced buggy code into my project.