u/R3D3-1

Sorry if this seems a bit ranty.

I have now had two real-world use-cases, where I was in a position to really judge the quality of the results with Gemini.

• Give it ~30 formal reports we had to submit and summarize my work in the course of the project.
• Let it look at a list of hammer drills I've assembled, and tried to make it tell me things about it.

For the summarizing of project work, it gave superficially viable, but ultimately unusable summaries, despite attempts to prod it into the right decision, including providing my own summary as feedback. It kept emphasizing details, that were unimportant for the summary, neglecting some topics, and missattributing work listed in the reports despite my clarifications.

For the hammer drill list I wanted to ask it to assemble reviews. As a first test I asked it to list the models I've already excluded. On that it answered that my configuration doesn't exclude any Gemini models (despite the file as context). When changing the query to explicitly "hammer drill models", it came back with an incomplete list. Upon further prodding it claimed, that the file doesn't contain the information.

I keep hearing people talking about how they use Copilot at work (in Europe basically every business uses the Windows ecosystem, nonody seems to use Google Workspace). Is Copilot that much better at such tasks, or am I doing something wrong?

Previously I was mostly asking questions on subjects I didn't know anything about, so I wasn't able to understand if an answer was wrong, though I did notice answers from separate chats contradicting each other.

^(I chose Gemini for my own use, because I already need a Google subscription for my large archive of Emails and for Google Photos. Changing the AI subscription would ultimately require switching everything to the Microsoft ecosystem or pay double.)

I was thinking about how beds can be kept safe from water spillage from the baby bottle with a protection cover, but how putting apple juice in results in a sticky bed. Then I thought about possible solutions and why they wouldn't work.

Motivated by caffeine deficiency.

https://preview.redd.it/1ffqfs6icj4h1.png?width=650&format=png&auto=webp&s=b8974b429f8cdb81193bc5ce549269acdeee55d4

I have a Pro tier subscription for private use. I have been using it for a few hours a day, exclusively with Flash (Medium) and made sure to start new chat sessions for new tasks to avoid unnecessarily large context windows.

And now it tells me to basically take a break for 3 days.

Any idea how to handle this? The worst part is that the only time I tried the higher tier models with separate allowance, they were already out of allowance before they even did anything — on a private project consisting of less than 10 python files.

Motivated, ironically, by parental leave 😅

Vaguely inspired by r/humansarespaceorcs.