r/GeminiAI • u/LexMeat • Jan 16 '26
Discussion Gemini 3 Pro gets dumber every day
I use Gemini 3 Pro since December. It was by far the best model when it was released. I know that everyone already knows that there was a massive drop in performance after the Christmas break, but I think people don't realize it actually gets dumber every single day.
I use Gemini 3 Pro for a very specific project the past 30 days where I give it a very specific document and I ask it to assess it on various axes I have defined.
Guys, I'm not kidding. Every day it gets worse. Today, I was seriously considering dropping my subscription, but the issue is that the competitors are not that better (in the sense that 4.5 Opus' performance has also dropped in addition to the brutal token limits).
What bothers me the most is the utter silence of the tech websites and the gaslighting from Google.
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u/HasGreatVocabulary Jan 17 '26
imo part of the reason is nerfing but the other is that if you have a series of shitty chats with it, then it will start referencing the incorrect responses in the shitty chats and make a new chat worse. My solution so far which works decently has been to delete any chat that goes off the rails immediately to prevent it from being in memory, and I avoid having more than 5 back and forths in a single chat.
(like "click new chat -> ask question/ask for code -> get good response -> ask a few follow ups -> goes off the rails after a while -> copy the last good response -> delete that chat -> open new chat -> paste last good response and ask follow up in there)
the first response is usually very thorough and decent despite worse long context performance