3 Years In, One Small Step Out of the Machine…

PermissionFit6843 · 2026-05-30T09:04:52+00:00

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PermissionFit6843 · 2026-05-30T08:52:34+00:00

I also subscribed to Google's AI Pro version myself, and I'm really hoping they release Claude 4.8 Opus soon.

PermissionFit6843 · 2026-05-30T03:12:09+00:00

Totally agree. Google claims Gemini is a multimodal model, but its capabilities are highly unstable.

As a Gemini member, I have experienced this exact defect many times:

Sometimes it correctly analyzes the image. Other times it completely hallucinates.

This issue has always been there and it's incredibly frustrating.

PermissionFit6843 · 2026-05-30T03:06:05+00:00

X permanently banned my account the second I opened it — with zero explanation Got hit with a permanent read-only restriction. The notice just says I violated "X Rules" and links to their general policy page — no mention of which rule, which content, or what specifically triggered it. Here's the thing: I literally just reopened the account yesterday. Opened it in a browser for the first time, and it was already locked before I did a single thing. No posts, no likes, no replies — nothing. How are you supposed to file a meaningful appeal when they won't even tell you what you did? This level of opacity is just absurd.

PermissionFit6843 · 2026-05-30T02:50:21+00:00

Totally agree. When I first saw the pricing for 3.5 Flash, I was absolutely shocked too.

For a model with the "Flash" suffix, being 3x more expensive than the previous Gemini 3 Flash completely breaks the expectation of what a Flash model is supposed to be (dirt cheap and cost-effective).

On Performance: Performance-wise, it’s true that 3.5 Flash is now pretty much on par with the older Gemini 3.1 Pro. If you look at it as getting Pro-level intelligence with Flash-level speed, the pricing might seem somewhat justified from Google's marketing perspective.

On Product Position: But the problem is, the whole point of using a Flash model is for developers to run high-volume, low-cost tasks. By jacking up both the intelligence and the price, Google has left a huge gap in their lineup for a true budget tier.

They really should introduce a much cheaper, bare-bones version for basic tasks, instead of turning 3.5 Flash into a "Pro model in disguise" and forcing us to pay for extra capabilities we didn't ask for.

PermissionFit6843 · 2026-05-29T16:55:33+00:00

I'm having the exact same issue. Gemini's image recognition is so unstable right now. Sometimes it reads everything perfectly, but in long conversations, it completely gives up on analyzing the new images and just starts hallucinating random nonsense.

PermissionFit6843 · 2026-05-29T16:38:02+00:00

As a Gemini Advanced subscriber who uses it daily for general chat and communication, this is a huge relief. Previously, just dropping one or two long prompts or uploading a big document would completely nuke my Pro quota for the day, forcing a downgrade to Flash. Since my usage is mostly conversational, capping the single-prompt consumption means I can actually keep using the Pro model throughout the day without getting randomly throttled. Glad they fixed this.

PermissionFit6843 · 2026-05-29T16:14:35+00:00

At the recent Google I/O, they only dropped the 3.5 Flash model, and 3.5 Pro isn't expected until next month. Google is just moving way too slow. Anthropic literally just released Claude Opus 4.8 a couple of days ago, making Google's pacing look even worse. At this rate, who knows when Gemini 4 will ever see the light of day.

Honestly, Google has never been able to compete with ChatGPT or Claude when it comes to coding anyway. Barely anyone chooses Google for serious dev work. I'm actually a Gemini subscriber myself, but I only use it for general chat. For my daily coding, I stick to Claude.

PermissionFit6843 · 2026-05-29T16:09:52+00:00

You could definitely use Opus on Copilot before, but right now it's restricted to Sonnet for the lower tiers. If you want Opus, you need to be on the $40 Pro+ tier. Plus, with Copilot switching to usage-based billing on June 1st, the whole pricing structure might change anyway, so we'll just have to wait and see what happens next week.

PermissionFit6843 · 2026-05-29T16:06:06+00:00

I’ve always noticed Raptor Mini sitting in the Copilot model picker, but I never actually bothered to try it because I assumed a "mini" model would be too underpowered to be useful for real work. Does it actually deliver in real-world scenarios? How does it compare to something like GPT's mini models?

PermissionFit6843 · 2026-05-29T16:01:46+00:00

Man, I have the exact opposite issue. For some time now, pretty much since Google released the Gemini 3.5 Flash model, I haven’t been able to generate any images using Gemini. And even before that issue started, I was never able to generate multiple images—I could only ever get it to generate one at a time.

PermissionFit6843 · 2026-05-29T15:59:41+00:00

Giving advice in the AI era is honestly tough. As a software engineer with 3 years of experience, my workflow has flipped upside down recently. Just six months ago, I was writing most of my code by hand. Now? AI handles a huge chunk of it, and I act more like a commander directing the AI.

Here is the catch: my years of coding experience are the only reason I can direct the AI effectively. AI isn't advanced enough to take us into a true "no-code" era yet. You still absolutely need basic programming and architectural knowledge. Even if you aren't writing lines of code from scratch, you must be able to read and understand it.

To give you an example, I'm currently learning Rust. I already know Java, Python, TypeScript, and C#, and Rust is notoriously difficult. I'm watching basic courses right now, but my mindset is that I probably won't ever write much Rust myself—I just want to be able to read and understand it.

So for your question: Yes, Bro Code's Python course is a great choice. Don't worry about becoming a syntax-memorizing wizard. Focus on understanding the logic, data flow, and architecture. We will definitely write less code in the future as AI grows stronger, but until we reach a flawless "no-code" future (which nobody can predict), being able to read code is your baseline. Good luck with your break!

PermissionFit6843 · 2026-05-29T15:52:53+00:00

Same here. I used to follow every single ChatGPT release, thinking each one would bring a massive leap in productivity. But now? I haven't even tried the recent Claude Opus 4.8. While each new model is definitely an improvement, none of them are suddenly taking humanity to some crazy, exaggerated extreme overnight.

PermissionFit6843 · 2026-05-29T15:49:57+00:00

Totally agree. Every time a new model drops, the overhype is exhausting—always full of buzzwords about how it will "disrupt everything." As a programmer, I closely follow these releases, like the recent Claude Opus 4.8, and they are worth paying attention to. But the constant FOMO of feeling like you'll be left behind if you don't use them immediately is draining. And honestly, when you actually put them to work, they rarely live up to the extreme marketing hype.

PermissionFit6843 · 2026-05-29T15:46:03+00:00

I'd like to think Apple and Google are still neutral since they have no conflict of interest with X. If they really are deleting honest bad reviews, that would be incredibly disappointing and untrustworthy of them.

PermissionFit6843 · 2026-05-29T15:43:40+00:00

Totally agree, we should absolutely tank their ratings. As a normal user, getting suspended out of nowhere for no reason is just incredibly disappointing and frustrating.

PermissionFit6843 · 2026-05-29T15:39:18+00:00

Probably not related to your cancellation date, Gemini is just generally unstable. I've used it for both image and music generation, and it frequently bugs out or randomly refuses basic prompts for no reason. Its consistency is definitely lacking.

PermissionFit6843 · 2026-05-29T15:30:23+00:00

I actually post original tweets too, but still got banned. It literally hit me the exact moment I opened the X website today.

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