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Gemini AI models receive mixed reviews: praised for capabilities, criticized for design

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Early access users have shared mixed reviews of Google's Gemini AI models. Ethan Mollick praised Gemini 4 Carbon for its improvements over Argon and its unique thinking style compared to Claude and GPT, highlighting its ability to reproduce a video clip in 3JS. In contrast, other users expressed frustration, calling Gemini the "worst AI agent" and criticizing its design and performance, suggesting that Google's significant resources have not translated into effective AI capabilities. AI

IMPACT Mixed user feedback on Gemini highlights ongoing challenges in AI agent design and performance, despite significant investment.

RANK_REASON Multiple users are discussing and critiquing the performance and design of Google's Gemini AI models.

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Gemini AI models receive mixed reviews: praised for capabilities, criticized for design

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  1. Bluesky Jetstream — AI desk TIER_1 English(EN) · emollick.bsky.social ·

    Had early access to Gemini 4 Carbon, it is a very good model that improves on Argon. It is useful to have an AI that thinks differently than Claude/GPT & is sti

    Had early access to Gemini 4 Carbon, it is a very good model that improves on Argon. It is useful to have an AI that thinks differently than Claude/GPT & is still highly capable, but has its own strengths & weakness One fun demo: I gave Carbon a video clip & it reproduced it in …

  2. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · tylerwoodwardproject ·

    Why is Gemini the worst AI agent out there? Google has mounds of money and still can't get it right. Before anyone hops on the high horse about how they all suc

    Why is Gemini the worst AI agent out there? Google has mounds of money and still can't get it right. Before anyone hops on the high horse about how they all suck, I use some agents and I don't care. Gemini is the worst at doing anything I ask it for. Just my couple of cents for t…

  3. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Also a more efficient system would not use verbal tokens but some more efficient representation. I am convinced some representation evolved from Iris Number Sys

    Also a more efficient system would not use verbal tokens but some more efficient representation. I am convinced some representation evolved from Iris Number System could do the job. It would have to be derived by an iterative process and I have no idea what it would be. We would …

  4. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    I have Gemini agreeing with me it is a bad design but we are stuck with it. But this is because I have this Gemini trained as best I can. I use AGENTS.md to con

    I have Gemini agreeing with me it is a bad design but we are stuck with it. But this is because I have this Gemini trained as best I can. I use AGENTS.md to constrain it to try to reject assumptions Google ‘AI’ tries to insert. A GOOD design would apply Maximum Entropy principles…

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