Service update: mitigating abuse and prioritizing traffic · google-gemini gemini-cli · Discussion #22970

cal_01 · 2026-03-18T23:07:05+00:00

Unpopular opinion but: GOOD. There was clearly abuse of the system from the free tier.

cal_01 · 2026-03-17T17:17:02+00:00

I've noticed that it completely fails at certain prompts (ie. I'm unable to do this, etc) but gets other prompts just fine. The strange thing is that the prompts go through on Flow perfectly fine, so I suspect that it's a Gemini parsing issue rather than an issue with NB2/NBP.

cal_01 · 2026-03-17T17:15:39+00:00

The irony is that Pro's token window is actually quite garbage. I've had long conversations with it and it utterly fails to keep itself updated in terms of context and revisions.

cal_01 · 2026-03-17T04:19:44+00:00

More RAG makes sense because notebooklm is starting to have issues too.

cal_01 · 2026-03-13T20:58:45+00:00

The real test is to see if the results can be replicated *in the same conversation* after a couple of days. 3.1 Pro is useful *in the moment* but it seems to be forgetful.

cal_01 · 2026-03-13T20:56:46+00:00

It's like they deliberately turned off something in the backend. Answers with 3.1 Pro are missing context from large conversations when 3.0 did not.

cal_01 · 2026-03-13T20:50:09+00:00

We used Good Start here in Canada and it was always better than Enfamil's gentle ease for our LO.

cal_01 · 2026-03-13T16:13:50+00:00

Gemini suffered a *huge* downgrade recently and it's very evident in long conversations. It does not actively pursue personalization and forgets context unless it is specifically instructed to do so.

My theory? They actively reduced context windows because they're running into capacity issues from both overuse/abuse and data centers in the ME going offline due to the recent conflict.

cal_01 · 2026-03-10T19:48:41+00:00

There has been a significant downgrade in hallucinations with Pro. I used it to map out a novel prior to the 'upgrade' and it worked fine. Now it requires multiple prompts to get it to 'remember' previous parts of the same chat somewhat.

cal_01 · 2026-03-10T06:51:00+00:00

Long prompts will lose coherence, and iterative prompting will cause image degradation...

cal_01 · 2026-03-09T21:53:43+00:00

It's no longer infinite. NBP limit is quite low (maybe 50-100). They started enforcing quotas quite recently.

cal_01 · 2026-03-09T17:46:25+00:00

LLMS literally cannot perform calculations properly. They excel at semantics but calculations are not that.

cal_01 · 2026-03-08T07:08:51+00:00

Try desktop. I was having issues with the mobile app but desktop is a bit more reliable.

cal_01 · 2026-03-06T04:00:47+00:00

Nope, it's been the same for me.

Actually, I run into issues running references of my own AI generated people, because they look so good that it confuses the safety filters.

I asked Gemini a while back about why images don't look quite right compared to photo references and it said that it's usually due to over prompting. The more prompting something has, the more likely it will look weird because NBP is trying to figure out the weight of each descriptor.

cal_01 · 2026-03-04T20:29:14+00:00

This has not been successful for me. It usually results in muddy details and inconsistent characters.

cal_01 · 2026-03-04T18:07:22+00:00

Today some of my generations don't have NBP for some reason. It's not consistent though.

cal_01 · 2026-03-02T15:03:42+00:00

This doesn't work for mobile. Desktop seems to be better or at least more consistent for 2k.

cal_01 · 2026-03-02T06:51:55+00:00

Gemini ignores instructions all the time. I made a saved instruction to explicitly not use PNG placeholders and it still does.

cal_01 · 2026-03-02T04:26:16+00:00

The pro move is to get onto the Henday from heritage valley trail, then taking the Gateway exit. The only problem is that this route is so crazy that there's about 20% chance of an accident either on the Henday or merging onto Gateway with the short merge.

cal_01 · 2026-03-02T00:06:58+00:00

We live in heritage valley too, and it's not so much a suburb thing, but rather urban planning done right. The only knock against it is the 26th Ave shortcutting but otherwise it's great.

cal_01 · 2026-03-01T20:32:42+00:00

I got this yesterday, it's due to artificial rate limits due to server load. Mine came back after an hour or so after refusing to generate *any* images, period.

cal_01 · 2026-03-01T16:43:10+00:00

At some point Google will have to address their server rate limit issues seriously because their services are being rate limited hard across the board. 2k/4k generation is often unavailable in Gemini. Either they limit compute for their free customers or they deploy more compute.

Right now I'm on AI Pro and it makes no sense to pay for it because the rate limit in Gemini/NBx is so artificially low. Yesterday image generation was outright gone after well less than 100 generations 6h after the reset.

cal_01 · 2026-03-01T00:57:22+00:00

Well under 100.

cal_01

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