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What the hell is wrong with Gemini?
Posted on 7/17/25 at 12:32 pm
Posted on 7/17/25 at 12:32 pm
I asked Gemini for a step by step instruction to fix Ubuntu 20.04 spamming all my(not selected) drives with efi entries because I didn’t want to think.
It gave me 20 bash steps that I copied and pasted. Not complicated but for sure dealing with sensitive boot files.
Then, it said “Oh, but that’s not right because xxx and yyy. That would actually be harmful. Here’s a better way.” So five minutes turns into 90.
Gemini 2.5 is unusable for anyone not wanting to read 10 pages for a simple step.
It gave me 20 bash steps that I copied and pasted. Not complicated but for sure dealing with sensitive boot files.
Then, it said “Oh, but that’s not right because xxx and yyy. That would actually be harmful. Here’s a better way.” So five minutes turns into 90.
Gemini 2.5 is unusable for anyone not wanting to read 10 pages for a simple step.
This post was edited on 7/17/25 at 12:38 pm
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Posted on 7/17/25 at 6:06 pm to Dallaswho
What was your prompt
Posted on 7/17/25 at 7:04 pm to Vrai
Prompt good enough for it to know exactly what to do with all /dev names and what not.
It blows my mind that it would give two pages of bad, harmful instructions, then backtrack and do it somewhat correctly but never assume someone followed the first two pages of instructions that seemed fine when you’re paying half attention.
I know these things generate one token at a time but have some logic where if mess up real bad and realize it, then big red screen or something.
It blows my mind that it would give two pages of bad, harmful instructions, then backtrack and do it somewhat correctly but never assume someone followed the first two pages of instructions that seemed fine when you’re paying half attention.
I know these things generate one token at a time but have some logic where if mess up real bad and realize it, then big red screen or something.
Posted on 7/17/25 at 7:37 pm to Dallaswho
Do not ask computer to fix computer.
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