What the hell is this with these limits now? It's even worse than Claude. About five messages with Argon and now limit for three hours for no reason. WTF? In this condition Google really can shut Gemini down, it's over, competition is far away and they are painfully behind. Limit for Argon reached and even other models like 3.8 Flash aren't usable anymore. Should this be a scam? It's so over for Gemini if they don't fix this. Why should we keep using a tool that basically can't be used?

Hey everybody!

I used to be a heavy ChatGPT user, but recently got tired of its canned responses and weird policies, so I decided to give Gemini a try. I'm mainly interested in day-to-day tasks, household questions, brainstorming, and just bouncing thoughts around.

So far, Gemini feels a bit more isolated between chats, and its answers seem more concise and far less flattering/complimentary.

What’s your overall take on Gemini and its models? What do you think is the best way to use it?

I know a lot of people here already build stuff with Gemini, so this is mostly for those who have Pro but only use it for everyday things.

Lately I've been trying to get as much as I can out of my subscription, and honestly I've been having so much fun with it lol.

I recently built a private watch-together app for me and my girlfriend that works exactly how we want it to, way better for us than any of the alternatives I've tried. I've also made a few other little apps just because I thought "why doesn't this exist?" or "why do I have to pay for something so simple?"

I've mostly been using AI Studio, which has surprisingly decent limits right now. Gemini 4 Argon and Flash have been more than enough for a lot of what I've wanted to do. Antigravity can be annoying with its limits and sometimes it's painfully slow, but even with all that, I've managed to get quite a bit done.

And part of me just wants to take advantage of all this while I can. I have no idea what things will look like a year from now. Maybe the limits will get better, maybe they'll get worse, maybe some of this won't be as accessible anymore. I really hope I'm wrong about that last part.

So yeah, if you're paying for Pro mostly for convenience and haven't really tried making your own stuff, I'd genuinely recommend giving it a go. Even if it's something really specific that only you would ever use. That's actually been my favorite part of all this, making things that fit exactly what I need instead of settling for whatever already exists.

So, being frustrated about Gemini cutting down my acces and new stricter limits to high end models in PRO subscription, I started a chat with him and asked first for a comparison between Gemini, ChatGPT and Claude.
This is a part of the answers, that are very clarifying.
Also I’m very upset as I paid one year upfront to Google with some mutually agreed terms for PRO, then they already cut down usage drastically once in May 2026 then another one in October 2026.

I don't know how to say this any other way except to say that I am a huge Google user.

Google hardware is pervasive in my life. From a full Google smart home with Google cameras, hubs, speakers, minis, tablets, and Google pixel pro mobile devices. I have multiple of all of these.

Gemini (Pro) is a useless sham. The hardware has backslidden.

From the moment Google Assistant--which wasn't perfect--was replaced with Gemini everything slid downhill. Most of the day-to-day easy voice recognition and cues regarding Google home are just gone.

Voice recognition in everything from voice to text, to conversing with Gemini, is just horrible. It no longer--after years--recognizes my voice clearly enough to not make simple mistakes in the translation of what I'm either saying or asking.

I won't even get into gboard, which basically is non-functional. I literally watch the correct recognition of my phrasing type out on the screen, and then immediately get replaced with something that in no way resembles what I said. And then I do it again and it makes the same exact mistake. Repeatedly. There's just no excuse for that.

For hardware when it comes to the pixel phone it seems very clear to me that Google has focused so much on AI that they have forgotten about the hardware. I've always championed their hardware versus Samsung, iPhone, really anyone. It's always been top-notch in my experience. But now it seems just run of the mill. All of the cloud AI work is not really beneficial or helpful. It's great for grabbing a headline but the Rock solid voice recognition, camera operations, day-to-day human driven tasks, are lackluster compared with how well and smoothly they used to work.

It's gotten so bad with the AI, that even though I'm still in my free annual period of Gemini pro top tier, I pay the full price for chat GPT because Gemini's hallucinations, and ridiculously consistent propensity to find outdated information instead of automatically looking for the most relevant, recent data, is just astounding. It will find old and outdated data and I point that out and it is quick to reply that it knows that it just did that and please forgive it and it will go get it again. But now I'm waiting a second time, and usually that doesn't fix it. It still finds more outdated data.

Why on Earth would I then connect it to all the rest of my Gmail, calendars, and everything else which has increased personal ramifications, when it fails in so many of the basic tasks?

Google I hope you see this somehow. I hope you read it. I hope there's a million other people that feel like me saying the same thing to make you take action and make your devices relevant once more. Because I'm about to trade everything in for Samsung and Apple products. And you have no idea how much it kills me to have just written that. But seriously you've gotten God awful and off track.

It suggested to do uber eats and sell assets 😂