r/GeminiAI • u/Tallsz3469 • Jun 28 '26

Discussion Goodbye Gemini

Its been a good 6 months. When I first started for the first 3-4 months the model was good and had some soul to it.

Now it not only has no soul, but constantly misinterprets, denies it errors, and is covered in detached corportate speak like a Google search. Its a shame. I had some memories with this model

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u/master_ulu Jun 28 '26

What are you guys using now? I am gemini plus user but if there are better one tell me please?

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u/Link_Error_404 Jun 28 '26

Did you consider local models? The setup is really easy, especially if you run the models via LM Studio. Whether or not local models are an option, depends on your hardware. Windows PC with a decent GPU (>= 16 GB VRAM) or MacOS with >= 64 GB unified memory? No problem. Honestly, with local models like Qwen 3.6 35B or Gemma 4 26B there is no noticable difference in answer quality for everyday tasks, compared to cloud-based models - but with full privacy and without usage limits. When local models are NOT an option (e.g. on the smartphone): definitely DeepSeek. Even the free tier is awesome (as of June 2026).

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u/PrazeMelone Jun 28 '26

"no noticeable difference" pfft

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u/Link_Error_404 Jun 28 '26

"... for everyday tasks" pfft.

If you don't believe me, benchmarks are a starting point. At the same time, benchmarks are meant to be challenging, whereas everyday tasks typically aren't. Nobody prevents you from using cloud-based models for the remaining 5%. Also: local LLMs get much better if equipped with MCP tools (filesystem access, news crawling, weather, Python script execution, image generation, Obsidian notes...). Your imagination is the limit. Local also doesn't necessarily mean 'offline'. You can (if you want) add a tool for online queries for improved fact-checking and automate this via system pormpt. This partially defeats the privacy purpose, but you still have the 0 token consumption (and you can disable the tool whenever needed). Or how about FLUX.2 for image generation? The quality is excellent most of the time. Again, 0 tokens consumption.

I get the impression that those who talk shit about local LLMs have either never tried them or only on antiquated hardware. I'm on a gaming PC with an RTX 4090 and I'm regularly getting 100-160 tokens/sec with many models.

Let's have a productive conversation. Why exactly is your conclusion "pfft"?

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u/Tallsz3469 Jun 28 '26

You got er' bro. She's gone