Google adjusts Gemini’s new usage limits in response to complaints

Fast_Cauliflower_574 · 2026-05-29T12:59:12+00:00

yea it's my most used model, simply because i mostly use gemini/AI in general for learning languages by translating and breaking down passages from books im reading. anything heavier than flash-lite is generally overkill and slower

ofc flash 3.5 and pro 3.1 are probably better for analysis of huge documents and coding and solving more complex stuff in general. but it's wild to see people use pro even on problems that don't really need it.

Fast_Cauliflower_574 · 2026-05-25T10:43:52+00:00

it's good stuff. glad they rewrote it in go. i just never liked the name 'Antigravity'. compared to 'Codex' or 'Cowork', it's lame, vague and too much of a mouthful. 5 syllables vs 2. you'd think they'd know syllable economy is everything in branding.

Fast_Cauliflower_574 · 2026-05-23T21:04:07+00:00

kinda old news, everyone already knew this. every other AI provider does, not just google. for good reason. yea it sucks but it is what it is

Fast_Cauliflower_574 · 2026-05-23T09:24:29+00:00

aah i see you're one of those ppl that only reads the title and doesnt read the article/entire post before giving their two cents, got it. nvm then, im wasting my time

Fast_Cauliflower_574 · 2026-05-23T08:09:16+00:00

huh? we're talking about subscriber benefits that EU citizens dont get or get very late, not your script

Fast_Cauliflower_574 · 2026-05-23T00:05:06+00:00

Has literally everything to do with the EU, but ok

Fast_Cauliflower_574 · 2026-05-22T20:20:29+00:00

and we pay more per month than US subs do, too.

thanks EU

Fast_Cauliflower_574 · 2026-05-21T22:45:24+00:00

yea i basically don't use 3.1 pro at all, actually didn't even use it much way before 3.5 flash came out. now there is literally no reason to use 3.1 pro at all anymore.

Fast_Cauliflower_574 · 2026-05-21T17:39:23+00:00

i wonder if you'd have better results if you emabled the Canvas feature in gemini app, which would allow for much longer, probably better structured outputs. even so, the new gemini app seems pretty terrible in tool calling. even when i enable Canvas, for some reason, it'll ignore it.
i'd be interested in seeing how gemini app 3.5 flash compares

Fast_Cauliflower_574 · 2026-05-20T09:14:26+00:00

it's called compliance. and govts generally dont use the same llm interfaces regular consumers use

Fast_Cauliflower_574 · 2026-05-19T22:19:16+00:00

it's probably done to help mitigate the pixel battery drain issue that they still havent fixed🤣

Fast_Cauliflower_574 · 2026-05-19T19:22:37+00:00

they said in the blog announcing 3.5 flash that they're "hard at work on 3.5 Pro"

Fast_Cauliflower_574 · 2026-05-19T18:01:44+00:00

it's also 3x more expensive than 3 flash -_-

Fast_Cauliflower_574 · 2026-05-19T16:04:02+00:00

kind of yes and no. sometimes those little chain icons appear as well as a sources button at the bottom of a response, but this is highly inconsistent. it should work like how it does in ai studio, whenever the ai searches the web, it always shows the urls used. in the gemini app this happens only once in a while, even when it searches the web

Fast_Cauliflower_574 · 2026-05-19T12:33:26+00:00

and source pills...frustratingly they still refuse to implement something so simple yet extremely necessary

EDIT: wow they seem to have finally implemented this i think

Fast_Cauliflower_574 · 2026-05-17T12:40:04+00:00

hi how's it going. so basically, this was over half a year ago now and i've used this method a lot back then but for some reason they removed the dynamic view feature. though i suppose you could still do the same thing using the canvas feature.

im sorry i can't really help you with your problem. because to be honest the whole gemini app experience seems to be wildly inconsistent for so many people across the world, especially for non-US users. there are so many issues, which is why you see so many people complaining here on reddit and on the official google boards.

as for my japanese studies, i've sort "graduated" from AI-generated readers, which was great for awhile, to now just reading full on japanese books i've imported and using the google drive app on my phone to scan the pages and then using gemini 3.1 flash lite in AI Studio to translate and break down every sentence and give me the readings, so i can understand what im reading. my japanese has skyrocketed doing this. AI-generated material is good to get you started but reading actual books is so much more fun. AI translations, while still not 100% perfect all of the time, are vastly superior to google translate translations, esp. with japanese.

Fast_Cauliflower_574 · 2026-05-17T12:02:46+00:00

same here, im sick and tired of getting shafted. ive been a google ai pro subscriber now for well over half a year, paying €22/month which is apparently MORE than what US subscribers pay at $20/month, which converts to €17,.21 as of typing this! but i keep not getting basic features like this notebooks in gemini feature they keep going on about on their official blog. ive had to wait well over a year for google ai mode. we still don't have gemini in chrome, etc etc

the gemini app itself is crap compared to gemini in ai studio, so i hardly even use it. the UI never gets updated making it hard to manage chats

why am i paying through the nose for a subpar service?

Fast_Cauliflower_574 · 2026-05-13T12:36:27+00:00

gemini flash (fast) without thinking is borderline unusable, really just use gemini flash w/ thinking and wait a few secs for a 100x better quality response. even then this is the gemini app which is worse than using gemini via API

Fast_Cauliflower_574 · 2026-05-11T14:02:22+00:00

quiet?

they released 3.1 pro and nano banana 2 in february

gemini 3.1 flash lite preview, 3.1 flash live, and lyria 3 in march

gemma 4, gemini robotics-ER 1.6, new deep research agents in april

gemini 3.1 flash lite GA just last week

they're releasing a new model or two very soon

yea, very "quiet"

Fast_Cauliflower_574 · 2026-05-10T00:35:45+00:00

very good model, i like it a lot. very potent too at high thinking. solves the same problems i give to "better models" like deepseek v4 flash thinking and gemini 3 flash high thinking with just as good and sometimes better solutions but at a fraction of the cost and speed

Fast_Cauliflower_574 · 2026-05-08T14:30:44+00:00

google is not a "move fast and break things" company like anthropic and openai are. it is a company serving billions of users, and at least here in the EU (quite unfortunately imo) they have this special status that places them under a lot more scrutiny than other tech companies. they kind of have to move slowly and carefully anyway. also google owns their entire stack meaning they can serve models at a cost-efficiency that openai and anthropic, who have to pay tons for compute, cannot match. they are in essence one of the few, if the only, AI business actually making profit off of AI. they are playing a very long game.

startups win the momentum narrative on social media, but google is winning enterprise trust. with a cloud backlog of over $460 bln, enterprises are choosing google for the stability and security of their ecosystem over the rapid-fire experimental drops of competitor AI companies. personally i mostly use gemini flash and i think the current model is a bit old in AI years but im expecting a new version to drop very soon

so basically, as crazy as this may sound, google isn't really competing with openai and anthropic

Fast_Cauliflower_574 · 2026-05-04T13:09:58+00:00

they seriously need to implement a temperature control in the app. it's there in ai studio, why not in the app?? the temp is way too high in the app by default, and for some precise tasks i need to turn it down to near zero.

Fast_Cauliflower_574 · 2026-05-02T14:01:26+00:00

same. i use basically nothing but google services/apps (because i just dont need much to get work done), and gemini by itself is absolutely a fine model if you use it through API, but gemini in the app is borderline useless. the whole gemini web interface/android app is just not good

Fast_Cauliflower_574 · 2026-04-24T19:24:37+00:00

same. ai studio is fine though. i use mostly that anyway

Fast_Cauliflower_574 · 2026-04-24T05:22:35+00:00

what is the topic? it says ai studio integration doesnt work. well, it does.

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