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Gemini is so bad, you could train a better LLM with your old gameboy.
I had to switch to Gemini on my phone cause Google assistant kept crashing my entire fucking phone no matter what I tried. Even a full wipe and start over it would just crash it.
The thing is fucking worthless. I use it basically ONLY to turn my lights on/off from bed and to call my mother while driving
90% of the time it doesn't understand what a light is and the other half it just randomly calls someone on my contacts instead of who i said.
Google assistant at least was reliable when it wasn't out right nonfunctioning.
And Google Assistant was even better once upon a time before Google decided to make it worse to force people over to Gemeni despite it having no functionality more than a subpar chatbot with a search engine. It could not even tell the time out loud and even less set a timer or alarm.
Google Assisstant was good, it had the android auto mostly perfect.
It was at the beginning, but lately it's been hot garbage. I think they've nerfed it on purpose so that the migration to gemini is an easier sell.
For me, I'm happy it now understands "hey Google, how's my timer?" As equivalent of "how long is left on my timer" and no longer answers that question with "it's seven fifty two pm" 😡
Gemini 2.5 used to be solid. It still would fuck up sometimes, but its ability to remember small details throughout a long conversation and weave them in as relevant was phenomenal. It felt conversationally good to use it for that reason, at least for bouncing ideas off of and getting perspectives I didn't consider myself.
Every model of it since has been like talking to a compulsive liar that also has dementia. Like someone you can largely trust to go cook some eggs, but tell them to go grab a complex recipe I asked for last week and make it again, and they'll confidently say they've never seen that recipe before or made it in their life. I guess lobotomizing your product compared to your competitors all in the name of saving on cost seemed like a good idea to someone at Google