Is it just me or has Gemini enshittified in the last three weeks?

Question

As someone who's been using the Gemini Pro plan for the past 9 months, I noticed a massive jump in the amount of rate-limiting I'm getting from Gemini since around the beginning of May.It seems to coincide with the updated UI and the release of the Gemini 3.5 Preview model.For the better part of this year, Gemini was my go-to model for answering simple questions quickly. The google search plug-in made it super easy to ask, and it seemed to have endless capacity for research and complex answers on the $20/month plan. Meanwhile, I used Claude very sparingly, and saved most of my Pro plan for Claude Code tokens. Now I find that I'm rate-limited by Gemini harder than Claude. Is compute being shifted away from Gemini behind the scenes?Maybe LLM compute is finally moving away from subsidized direct consumer use. Still, I had previously thought that Gemini would be the last man standing in that use case, as Google seemed to have the most money to burn.

neofrommatrix · Accepted Answer

Hallucinations galore. It is supposed to personalize responses since it has access to my main gmail account. It thought I was a woman and working in healthcare. Pretty wildly off.

dormento · Answer

Massively so, yes. It feels snappier tho, and this makes the situation arguably worse - imagine they have this big dashboard showing that people are interacting more the AI, so they should keep on improving the speed even though the results themselves are terrible."I'm In This Photo, And I Don't Like It".

poggingfish · Answer

This is very common for AI companies, they release the full beast to reach the top of benchmarks, then quantize after everyone calls them the best and everyone buys a subscription.