Gemini felt dumb on March 27, 2026.

I keep using ChatGPT because its voice button lets me speak freely, pause, and it just works. Gemini’s dictation, however, makes my stomach churn—if I pause a second it sends an incomplete prompt, and any imperfect speech trips it up. I end up recording in ChatGPT then copying to Gemini, which feels pointless. The experience is irritating and feels like a simple fix that Google ignored.

I’ve been using the gemini‑3‑flash‑preview model both via the CLI and the Code Assist extension, and the difference is striking. The extension actually “gets” my code, solves the tasks in one go, and tackles tougher problems without getting stuck. The CLI often loops forever searching directories, while Code Assist jumps straight to the solution. It feels far more precise and capable.

I tried repeatedly to get a simple “2‑5‑1 chord progression over 4 bars in C major” from the music‑gen feature, tweaking the phrasing each time, but it never produced anything close to what I asked. As a musician, I found the tool’s behavior infuriating and unhelpful, leaving me feeling stuck and disappointed.

I kept asking Gemini to finish a piece of JavaScript, but it always stopped right at the “= ” line, no matter how I rephrased or restarted. It snipped the code exactly after “this.validMoves =” and similarly in another function, cutting off at “recordedChunks =”. The repeated truncation is irritating and makes the tool feel unreliable for coding tasks.