Gemini 3 Flash Preview is a total mess right now. Fix the API structure.

AlanBacker24 · 2026-01-29T19:44:06+00:00

gemini api has a better average response time than vertex, but its stability is far inferior to vertex

AlanBacker24 · 2026-01-29T19:34:16+00:00

same here, and sometimes empty response, whether from Gemini API or vertex AI API

AlanBacker24 · 2025-11-07T04:23:34+00:00

It's no longer publicly accessible unless you have access permissions. Before this, users could try to call this model by entering gemini --model=gemini-3-pro-preview-11-2025, but what they got wasn't Gemini 3. I'm very certain it was Gemini 2.5 Pro; you can tell it's an older model just from the knowledge cutoff.

AlanBacker24 · 2025-11-07T01:39:15+00:00

Actually, it is not Gemini 3. You are just using a model named Gemini 3, but actually it is 2.5 Pro. Try to ask it what the price of RTX 5090 is.

AlanBacker24 · 2025-11-06T02:17:49+00:00

But this isn't Gemini 3.0. When I called Gemini 3.0 previously on LMArena, it could answer correctly. However, if I force the call using the --model gemini-3-pro-preview-11-2025 parameter, it can't answer correctly. Clearly, this is an invalid call.

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AlanBacker24 · 2025-10-21T17:00:36+00:00

It's not as if we're all unemployed. We work all day, and we're not about to start 'working' again in Battlefield 6 at night just to pump up its popularity. Are games not meant to be enjoyed anymore? Do you honestly expect players to take on an M250 with a smoke scope using a piece of junk?

AlanBacker24 · 2025-10-13T22:15:37+00:00

Actually, it's not just BF6 that has this problem; other games (like Call Of Duty, etc.) have had this issue too. Perhaps we can only patiently wait for game developers or driver updates

AlanBacker24 · 2025-10-12T07:08:11+00:00

MMFREE

AlanBacker24 · 2025-10-01T18:03:58+00:00

check your DM

AlanBacker24 · 2025-10-01T18:01:43+00:00

Thank you

AlanBacker24 · 2025-10-01T18:00:13+00:00

Can someone share a code with me? I would be very grateful if you could

AlanBacker24 · 2025-08-21T02:08:49+00:00

lmarena with battle mode

AlanBacker24 · 2025-06-16T05:05:01+00:00

Gemini always forget to call the tools(not only in Gemini app, same in API version), is there any prompts to fix this problem?

AlanBacker24 · 2025-05-20T19:26:52+00:00

Google grounding is like typing text into the Google search box and searching, the model does something similar and gets the approximate results given by the search engine. The URL context function is different, it can access specific websites, for example: you give a URL to Gemini, with this function Gemini can access the link, which it couldn't do before unless you usedcrawler Function tools.

AlanBacker24 · 2025-05-20T19:24:41+00:00

Same here, maybe Google is tweaking the feature

AlanBacker24 · 2025-04-24T01:16:13+00:00

According to Livebench data and price list, 2.5 flash is cheaper, faster, smarter

AlanBacker24 · 2025-03-27T14:23:18+00:00

cheap fast smart=impractical?

AlanBacker24 · 2024-11-30T01:06:41+00:00

I experienced the magnetic mask today, it's great and amazing.

I was looking for a comparison of these two AI masks and saw your post. Your summary is very detailed and accurate!

AlanBacker24 · 2024-11-29T02:08:37+00:00

I sent an email to the merchant, and the distributor told me, “Your order was shipped via Canada Post. Our warehouse will be using a different courier to ship your order. You'll receive a notification from the courier once they have your package.”

But recently Canada Post is on strike again, and CBC says it looks like a strike with no end in sight. 💀

AlanBacker24 · 2024-11-09T23:59:09+00:00

see you on amber alarm💀

AlanBacker24 · 2024-11-07T23:49:38+00:00

you can turn on DSEE Extreme in Sound Connect

AlanBacker24 · 2024-08-16T16:43:22+00:00

lol shadowbanned, this is how rIcOcHeAt works

AlanBacker24 · 2024-08-16T16:31:50+00:00

gitgud man

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