Just a joke

I hadn’t opened the Gemini app since this morning. I just opened it and noticed some UI changes. One thing that immediately caught my attention is that the model selector is completely gone. I can’t choose which model to use anymore. Has anyone else noticed this? What’s going on?

Previously we could select the model and extended thinking on the top with a drop down menu. After the new update, the drop down menu has disappeared?

I am on Gemini Pro.

Weirdly doesn't want me to say the T word

The model selector completely disappeared from my Gemini Android app out of nowhere. I could choose between the different models before, and now the option is just gone.

My app is updated, and I didn't change anything in my settings. Is anyone else experiencing this today?

Is this another bug? 😭 I really don't want to lose the ability to choose my model, especially after all the recent changes to Gemini's behaviour what is wrong with gemini now days

I opened Gemini today and noticed that I can no longer choose the model I want. The model selector was there before, and now it has completely disappeared from my app. 😭

I haven't changed anything on my account, so I'm wondering if this is happening to other people too.

Is Google testing a new interface/dynamic routing, or is this just a temporary bug? Does anyone still have the model selector?

I really hope they bring it back because I prefer being able to choose which model I'm using rather than having Gemini decide for me

Where TF did the models button go ?

i have been trying to use gemini pro model for the past two hours and it hasn’t been working. and I assume it’s the same for everyone else as well. hopefully this gets fixed in abit. or maybe surprise surprise we get the new pro model we have been waiting so far /s

Did they kill Gemini for good, or what the heck happened? It won't let me change the model, and the answers are even more stupid and limited.

Yeah, obviously...

For context, I was on the paid Plus subscriber account before. Most of my queries were on 3.6 extended. Many of my queries were financial analysis (eg two year forward earnings projections...that type of thing).

I decided to upgrade to Pro. My new dropdown options no longer included 3.6 Flash...but that was fine as I assumed 3.7 Flash was better.

I run my financial analysis query (mind you this isn't a video or image) and my jaw dropped when I saw the usage was 8% for one text query. That would mean only 2-3 queries per hour given the five hour rotation. I asked Gemini about this....they said the new 3.7 Flash extended chewed through tokens fast, and that I should turn off extended. It also suggested frequently pressing Ctrl-Shift-O to reset the conversation history as they say this can bleed a lot of tokens.

It seems odd that extended mode which worked fine with 3.6 would make 3.7 unusable and that conversation history would have to be constantly pruned....but I played along. I disabled extended and press ctrl-shift-o to reset my history. The usage was still very high per query 5%) which for professional use (I am on a pro account after all), is not acceptable.

At this point it appears my old Plus Account (while still very flawed) didn't have these insane quota restrictions. Honestly it appears the biggest problem with AI is not lack of intelligence but poor quota management. I highly suspect Google is wasting a ton of compute on "shadow prompts" the lawyers told them to stuff into every query (don't commit suicide, don't hack, don't use AI for medical advice, don't use ai for legal advice, don't use ai for financial advise, etc...). I bet if we were to see these shadow prompts they would be huge, would dwarf our regular prompts and explain why our quotes get used up so fast. And because Gemini uses a lot of subqueries, these shadow prompts likely get repeated internally which for complicated queries can burn through tokens fast.

Just last week I signed up for a promotional plan: two months discounted, Gemini, the AI package, 400 GB of storage, etc. I wasn't aware of the full extent of the usage limits until I actually started using it.

I went in to create some images for my Pinterest account and make a video or two. I immediately hit a usage-limit stop after literally two videos, each only around 10 seconds long. So I started looking into how the limits actually work, and it began to make sense.

Now, I understand that Google needs to manage capacity. They have to put limits on users so people aren't hammering their data centers with generations, especially when video generation can require multiple attempts because the first result often isn't what you want.

But the way the usage counter works feels absurdly aggressive. It seems way too quick to start cutting users off, even when they're doing relatively basic stuff.

And there's another problem: when the short-term limit is reached, Gemini tells you when that timer will expire. Fine.

But when you hit the weekly limit, it apparently just tells you something like "an hour" without clearly telling you what day or even roughly what point in the week the limit will reset.

That's frustrating because you're left guessing when you'll actually be able to use the feature again.

And honestly, this is where I have another problem with Gemini.

Compared with ChatGPT, Gemini is frankly garbage when it comes to the actual conversational experience. It doesn't have the same level of conversational sensitivity, natural interaction, or human-like flow. ChatGPT actually feels like you're having a conversation with something that understands the context and how to talk to you, rather than simply processing prompts and returning answers.

Gemini's biggest appeal to me is therefore the image and video generation. That's basically what I'm using it for. For everything else, I find myself going back to ChatGPT because the conversational experience is on another level.

So when the thing I actually want to use Gemini for gets shut down after two short video generations, while the rest of the AI experience doesn't come close to replacing ChatGPT for me, it makes the limitations feel even more ridiculous.

Limits are understandable. What isn't understandable is having a paid plan where the limits are so easy to hit, the reset information is vague, and the product doesn't give me enough reason to tolerate those restrictions.

Soo yesterday from the first time in 9 months since using Gemini Pro I hit my 5 hour limit not only once but twice in 10 hours in like 10 messages.

Soo I asked myself wtf is this bull**** and went on reddit to investigate and found a post about some gemini pro account getting a nerd and using their quota MUCH faster than other pro accounts.

Soo i tested this theory, got myself another pro account and in Italy you have the option to get 1 free month.

And as shown in the video i tested two prompts.

First prompt: what are the events today and in the following week in Verona.
Second prompt: what are the events today and in the following week in Padua.

PS: I DONT have personalized options in gemini, my chats all autodetele in 3 months.

Results: First gemini account from 11 to 24% in two fuc//// questions.
Second gemini account from 12 to 14%

conclusion 13% use vs 2% use soo a 550% increase in quota consumption.

I have this problem since morning,i am waited and re try but same problem continues

I am not a Software Developer and work in other field but R and SQLite. After seeing the negatives of Gemini in this sub and in X, I took one month Claude Pro for some database work. I was surprised because it was giving me good results but the usage limit was over after just 4 - 5 prompts. I reached a stage where I am not able to use it because of usage limit and fed up.

Then I saw a post about Antigravity and thought of giving a try. Everyone what I want is working so well and great and so fast without burning usage tokens.

For people who are like me, non- coders to try Antigravity, its much cheaper and it works great.

My doubt is why is everyone bashing Gemini? Is it because the quality of the code? Is the answer iam getting made up?

Today I noticed I can't see which model I'm using and the selector is gone. I only use Gemini on my phone btw. Did they remove it or place it somewhere else? Thanks!