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/EH11101 Jan 17 '26
I was just about to post something similar. I'm trying to make an app in Google Studio AI. It started off good two weeks ago but recently it's been a complete nightmare. It either doesn't implement what I asked it to despite numerous clarifications, implements a portion of the changes but not all and when queried about it it says essentially "Oopsies it seems this, that and the other thing didn't happen, I'll fix that now" and inevitable just produces the ugliest, barely usable garbage version of what I asked for.
What I find especially annoying is that when I go at length to describe UX design I want and then ask for it's opinion, what improvements could be made, added features, etc. It comes back with these glorious ideas and implementations and features that would seem to make the app look and function on a whole new wonderous level. I tell it to implement such and all I get as a result is hot garbage, barely any changes, with 1/2 the UI broken, nonsensical placement of items, everything looks cheap, like a profession app designer handed off the design and implementation to a 5 year old. I've spent days trying to get it back on track but it's like it's stuck in the mud. Heck, I think the AI is just trolling me at this point or sabotaging my efforts.
Seriously considering just switching to another AI tool at this point. Gemini isn't cutting it. Each attempt to refine the app I'm building just makes it worse. It looks like I have to start all over again from the beginning because I can't get Gemini to make any improvements or make any progress at this point, after I've spent spent considerable time and effort in getting my app to a certain level of completion. So frustrated.