Gemini quality complaints raise workflow risk for solo makers

Gemini 3.1 Pro and 3.5 Flash have drawn a wave of complaints about worse answers over the past few days or week. Pro was described as handling instructions too rigidly, missing nuance, and forcing extra cleanup on complex work.

Flash was expected to be weaker, but Pro becoming hard to use for serious tasks changed the calculation. Other reports described Gemini giving generic research plans instead of doing the deeper work requested, or asking users to paste material again after failing to handle the current context.

Developer complaints also touched Gemini CLI, where an open-source TypeScript tool was said to have been replaced by a closed Go binary, with users moved into one shared quota pool and some Pro subscribers hitting 403 errors during sessions. A reported delay of Gemini 3.5 Pro to July added to the concern, especially for people with long AI Studio histories, including about 1.5 million tokens of past chats that may need to be moved elsewhere.