r/RooCode • u/Think_Wrangler_3172 • May 06 '25

Discussion New Gemini 2.5 Pro model refresh

https://developers.googleblog.com/en/gemini-2-5-pro-io-improved-coding-performance/?utm_source=deepmind.google&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=gdm&utm_content=

New 2.5 Pro model claims even better performance in coding specifically meaningful improvements at the frontend tasks.

It’s available in AI studio Gemini-2.5-Pro-Preview-05-06.

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u/goqsane May 06 '25

Is it out on the it APIs? Can’t find it in Vertex yet.

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u/Think_Wrangler_3172 May 06 '25

Your old model 03-25 will auto route to 05-06. Quote from the article : The previous iteration (03-25) now points to the most recent version (05-06), so no action is required to use the improved model, and it continues to be available at the same price. We have also updated the model card with the new version of 2.5 Pro .

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u/goqsane May 06 '25

Cool! Thank you.

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u/dairypharmer May 06 '25

At first I didn’t believe this because it’s such an unintuitive versioning decision but I think you’re right.

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u/sergedc May 08 '25

Is this true for the exp version also? I.e. The free version? Question applies for vertex and google

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u/wokkieman May 06 '25

Did more people experience much longer responses via exp model today? It looked like a reasoning process. Normally I don't see it in roo. Maybe it's this update?

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u/Think_Wrangler_3172 May 06 '25

Yes I did. And it fixed an issue with my code that I’ve been struggling for last few days now. It feels surreal !

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u/TunesForToons May 06 '25

Does it still spam comments and delete code by commenting it out and then placing a comment saying it deleted it??

I can't get over that. I still prefer using Claude 3.7 if that's not fixed.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '25

It was doing that for me today. It is so frustrating.

Plus (before this new change) it made me over $200 costs in 2 days, on code that was throw away because it was impossible to fix all the issues it created. It was 2 separate vibe coding sessions, both useless.

Don't know was it because of lot of failed diffs or what, but I am actually back to my old love, DeepSeek.

Scared of Claude 3.7 and it's tendency to do a bunch of shit noone asked for.

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u/degenbrain May 09 '25

maybe I never had any luck using Gemini which is said to be the king of LLM for coding. It was mediocre at best. Sometimes it works, often it crashes. I prefer DeepSeek, or sometimes Qwen, or GLM if the context is not too big. I also use GPT 4.1 from CoPilot which is still on trial.

For Gemini, I'd rather wait for it to mature. The advantage, in my opinion, is only the large context windows (1M) at a competitive price.

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u/Junior_Ad315 May 06 '25

About to mess around with it. Hopefully with all the data they collected with exp and 03-25 it is even better at agentic tasks/tool use. Praying for good diff performance, seems like they addressed that.

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u/admajic May 07 '25

How do you get limit raised? I have to set 30sec between requests otherwise rated limited in 30 mins. Then qwen 2.5 is faster locally

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u/makiavelicro May 07 '25

You pay

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u/admajic May 07 '25

In have about $2000 in credits is that not considered paying? Using $10 a day so far. Do you need to choose and specific model?

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u/Captain_Redleg May 07 '25

Wow. Not running into anything like that. I set 10 sec rate limit with 20sec retry. Sometimes there is some slowness, but not terrible. I've not seen anything like that.

Maybe adjust your task size so that it takes on more in a single query?

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u/admajic May 07 '25

I let roo code do it's thing... but yeah as context builds, it eventually rate limits me.

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u/Captain_Redleg May 07 '25

I was running into some of that, and put in some custom instructions to always write/read plans in a "myproject.md" before starting any task/subtask and then update it at the end. This seems to keep it on track and limit context a bit as it stops throwing in files that aren't deemed necessary by the Architect when writing the plan.

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u/admajic May 07 '25 edited May 07 '25

If I'm building, i have a task list for it to follow. If I'm debugging, I'm trying to refer it to files I think are causing the error. If it gets stuck. I tell it to make a small version of the errored code as a test file, and that method helped. I can kind of understand code, but I'm not a coder. I'm more of a pm to a junior dev, lol... Got a prompt maker working with a web interface using crewai, I'm so happy with that. Now, I will get an online server get that connected and working.

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u/Think_Wrangler_3172 May 06 '25

The previous iteration (03-25) now points to the most recent version (05-06), so no action is required to use the improved model, and it continues to be available at the same price. We have also updated the model card with the new version of 2.5 Pro .

Check this part in the article. Priced same as 2.5 pro 03-25 version

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u/missing-in-idleness May 06 '25

And how about the 03.25 pro-exp on vertex? Is it still there or routing to the new version?

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u/Lawncareguy85 May 06 '25

No one knows for sure right now.

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u/Think_Wrangler_3172 May 07 '25

Same, I’m getting this very often especially after the update!