Comment by ant6n

Google is is also consistently the most frustrating chat system on top of the model. I use Gemini for non coding tasks. So I need to feed it a bunch of context (documents) to do my tasks - which can be pretty cumbersome. Gemini

* randomly fails reading PDFs, but lies about it and just makes shit up if it can't read a file, so you're constantly second guessing whether the context is bullshit

* will forget all context, especially when you stop a reply (never stop a reply, it will destroy your context).

* will forgot previous context randomly, meaning you have to start everything over again

* turning deep research on and off doesn't really work. Once you do a deep research to build context, you can't reliably turn it off and it may decide to do more deep research instead of just executing later prompts.

* has a broken chat UI: slow, buggy, unreliable

* there's no branching of the conversation from an earlier state - once it screws up or loses/forgets/deletes context, it's difficult to get it back on track

* when the AI gets stuck in loops of stupidity and requires a lot of prompting to get back on the solution path, you will lose your 'pro' credits

* (complete) chat history disappears

It's an odd product: yes the model is smart, but wow the system on top is broken.