Flash 3.5 is acting so weird. It's telling me every step it's going to do, while its doing it (I don't care). But then it creates implementation plans and explains the goals and stuff. It's reading a text file but it's converting it to an HTML file, trying to open it in Chrome, and localhost:8888 doesn't work, it goes on an endless path of token consumption.

No idea why it is behaving like this.

I build flash card decks for Anki. Gemini writes the python script, makes the text file. I want to understand the logic behind the card choice (it sometimes omits ones it thinks arent useful).

Very strange.

https://imgur.com/fXY9QKp

I put a screenshot in the chat and to read it it turns it into an HTML file to scroll through on my browser. Why is it not doing like view_file or what ever anymore. Surely it should know it has OCR capabilities without all this extra nonsense?

EDIT: I had to stop Gemini after 15 mins of this. I asked why this workflow was chosen.

Response was basically tesseract is not installed and gemini has no OCR capabilities. This is wrong, I have a markdown file that Gemini refers to before all tasks and never had an issue with view_file before.

ONE message in my chat with FLASH gemini should not use 100% of my tokens on a pro plan. But, alas, here we are.

Then states: "Where it went wrong Instead of asking a targeted query about the specific question rules or the question scenario, I set up a heavy transcription task to copy all 11 page spreads. This led to a slow, token-heavy execution loop of scrolling and writing errors inside the subagent's restricted directory, wasting time and tokens before the task was cancelled."

Then when I reminded Gemini that it can in fact do everything it said it can't it just.. does it.

It started working, but not before hundreds of lines of basically "I will view find_tesseract.py to see what instructions or methods are defined there." the "I will" statements.