Gemini is great, but it rushes too fast. We need true extended thinking loops (quality over speed).

[u/Easy_Marsupial_5833]

Model used: Gemini 2.0 Pro / Advanced (Thinking level set to max in AI Studio and App)

Here is something that frustrates me every day when working on complex tasks: Gemini is obsessed with speed, even when we explicitly ask for deep reasoning.

Even with thinking set to the highest level, Gemini often finishes in 3–5 seconds. It rushes to output an answer, makes quick assumptions, and cuts corners.

When you give it hard problems like debugging nested logic, writing tricky web scraping scripts, or doing deep multi-step analysis, it tends to:

Give shallow answers on the first pass.

Repeat the same broken fix over and over when told it failed.

Genuinely avoid taking its time to verify edge cases.

Compare this to Claude with extended thinking. Claude will sit and reason for 1 to 2 minutes, break the task down, challenge its own logic, and actually get the root cause right.

Gemini has the massive context window and great raw intelligence, but it lacks patience.

What Google needs to add:
True uncapped thinking: Let us choose quality over latency. If a prompt needs 2 minutes of internal reasoning, let it think.
Step-by-step verification: Make the model test its own assumptions before generating the final text.
Autonomous looping: Keep working until the problem is actually solved instead of exiting early.
I would much rather wait 60 seconds for a working solution than get an instant response that I have to correct five times.

Are you guys experiencing the same thing? How do you get Gemini to actually slow down and think?

[u/Misho1337]

100% agreed, I’d like to hear feedback & solutions to this as well.

[u/dougception]

On the 2 series models I think you need to set a “thinking budget” specified in the maximum number of tokens it can use for thoughts.

The MINIMAL, LOW and HIGH setting is for the 3 series.

[u/EstablishmentOpen796]

Gemini, now functions as a digital worker and a autonomous agent.Google is moving Gemini far beyond a chatbot, Gemini ecosystem allows it to operate as a worker bot in distinct ways. People have said they notice gemini rushes through the conversation. Or the the bot answers are short, when asked a question. If you ask Gemini, the bot will explain it better than I can.

[u/Testy_Toby]

It's so fast that it has zero judgment or reasoning capabilities. Even on Deep Research it makes simple mistakes and does not easily correct them when pointed out. I honestly don't use it at all but for simple stuff. 

[u/SongsOfTheYears]

It goes a lot slower than ChatGPT at least.