u/RW63

A new business is being constructed next to Chipotle on SR520. Anyone know what it is gonna be?

I have become pretty adept at using Microsoft's CoPilot, but for a current project, there are things I would like it to do, but it can't. Gemini can because (according to CoPilot), it has "has live web‑fetching enabled".

I'm not opposed to paying for Gemini, if it would reliably work, but I'm having issues with it hanging or quitting.

Often when it quits, I get a "Problem with Gemini - I'm having a hard time fulfilling your request. Can I help you with something else instead?" message. I've tried several times to ask it something simple like the color of the sun in the same chat after I get the error message -- I've even asked hours later -- but it just refreshes and puts my question back into the prompt box and gives me a popup that says "something went wrong (13)".

This occurs after it had successfully made several passes producing acceptable result -- Gemini suggested that instead of trying to query 300 entries, I divide them into blocks -- the error occurs after it had successfully processed a few blocks, then it just quits.

On another aspect of this project, I have encountered the token shortage message that gives me a time to come back to do more. This is different. The thing just quits and can't even tell me the color of the sun.

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Somewhat similar...

I like the Notebook concept, but something I also find difficult is that within a Notebook, if I give Gemini a straightforward task -- do X with the following -- it will give bad results or will just quit without doing anything because (according to when I ask about it in a new chat in the same notebook) it wants to apply "the logic" of something I did in a previous task. I'm not asking it to apply logic or reference anything else. I just wanted it to do X.

If anyone has any suggestions, I'm interested, but I may be just venting. I will say though, I really don't think I'll pay for access until I can get it to reliably complete my tasks.

The fact that my main computer is still running Windows 10 might have something to do with it and for what it's worth, I'm a daily user of the version that comes with 365 and don't pay extra for Pro.

With that said, for months the app shortcut has been an easy click from my Taskbar, but the other day it disappeared. Since then, multiple times I have put it back, but it keeps disappearing. Sometimes it does it in minutes and sometimes it stays until I use it, but for maybe a week, the taskbar shortcut icon disappears.

Is this happening to anyone else? Any thoughts? It's a real PIA.

Thanks