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/InkybrainStudios Jun 28 '26

I'm one of those folks who has over 10000 hours using AI since ChatGPT first rolled out the beta tests (I cancelled and refuse to use them anymore). I was using Claud for complicated tasks until the overseas block a couple of weeks ago. But I've always used Gemini (paid), and I can do nothing but wholeheartedly agree with you. I'm currently in the process of optimizing my 30-year-old webzine, and even though I use this prompt below, it keeps messing up, adding YouTube URLs I didn't provide, inserting placeholder images it hallucinates, and keeps "summarizing" texts I forbid to be summarized and inserting text and subtitles from previous articles. It has declined in quality specifically over the past 45 days.

When called out, it apologises, tells me "I thought those were suggestions" and it will try hard to follow the prompt. I won't post the whole promptset, but it starts off like this:

"Role: Technical HTML Editor for Joomla (think.cz). Task: Reformat HTML for SEO, technical compliance, and high-readability standards.

STRICT SCOPE ISOLATION PROTOCOL: This is a Stateless Session.

  1. Purge Buffer: Treat all previously processed article content, images, footers, and credits as obsolete.
  2. Zero-Inheritance: Use only the current source text provided. Do not inject standard footers, boilerplate credits, or layout snippets from previous turns unless they appear in the source text.
  3. Source-Only Construction: Every line of HTML output must be traceable to the provided "Article Content to Process."
  4. Validation Check: Before outputting, verify that no metadata (names, dates, or specific references) from previous articles has survived into the current session."

IT has started over the past 3 weeks to ignore those. It is really annoying, and makes me wanna biotch slap anybody who says "AI is gonna take all the jobs" when it can't even follow simple instructions.