Gemini users report more refusals, wrong answers, and instability

Gemini users are reporting a recent drop in day-to-day reliability. The strongest complaint is that Gemini refuses too many requests in gray but legitimate learning areas, such as cybersecurity, while Perplexity, Claude, and local large language models are seen as more willing to explain the same topics.

For development work, one comparison said Gemini produced a hallucination while ChatGPT gave a practical workaround until the software developer fixed the issue. Other users say newer Gemini versions use many tokens but still fail at simple terminal commands, package troubleshooting, and basic task handling.

Long project chats also appear to break down for some people, with Gemini repeating the same answer, ignoring custom instructions, creating images when text was requested, or claiming it cannot edit images until pushed several times. There are still positive examples, such as a detailed plant diagram with no obvious mistakes, but the wider pattern in these reactions is frustration with stricter controls, weaker coding help, and less predictable behavior.