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648 points yoavfr | 2 comments | 05 Sep 25 12:36 UTC | HN request time: 0.612s | source
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pflenker ◴[05 Sep 25 13:47 UTC] No.45138538[source]▶
Gemini keeps telling me "you've hit a common frustration/issue/topic/..." so often it is actively pushing me away from using it. It either makes me feel stupid because I ask it a stupid question and it pretends - probably to not hurt my feelings - that everyone has the same problem, or it makes me feel stupid because I felt smart about asking my super duper edge case question no one else has probably ever asked before and it tells me that everyone is wondering the same thing. Either way I feel stupid.
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ziml77 ◴[05 Sep 25 14:58 UTC] No.45139336[source]▶
Gemini also loves to say how much it deeply regrets its mistakes. In Cursor I pointed out that it needed to change something and I proceeded to watch every single paragraph in the chain of thought start with regrets and apologies.
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pflenker ◴[05 Sep 25 15:03 UTC] No.45139403[source]▶
Very good point - at the risk of being called insecure again, I really do not want my tools to apologise to me all the time. That's just silly.
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1. dominicrose ◴[05 Sep 25 15:23 UTC] No.45139633[source]▶
All this discussion clearly indicates is that Gemini is insecure.

And why would it not be? It's a human spirit trapped inside a supercomputer for God's sake.

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2. pflenker ◴[05 Sep 25 15:38 UTC] No.45139827[source]▶
Gemini sometimes reminds me a bit of the turrets in Portal. Child-like, polite, apologetic and in control of dangerous[^1] tech it doesn't understand.

[^1]: OK, the comparison falls apart here - at least as long as MCP isn't involved.