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I started finally using gpt about 6mo ago a lot to do useful things, it finally came far enough along. One day I thought after one of Google's big hype sessions about Gemini I should check it out too.

So I was working with a customer and needed something done in powershell to extract some customer data, as I normally hate windoze and don't touch it as a linux person. I told gemini what I wanted and to make me a script. It started trying teach me how to program powershell.

After laughing to myself and trying nicely a few times just frigging do it and make me (sandwich) script, it literally said something akin to "I can't do that Dave". It simply would not make me a script, instead trying to force me to RTFM. If I wanted to do that, I would have taken a windoze powershell class.

I just kinda stared at it for a minute, thinking what the hell google was thinking lately. I was a google fan, I have google glasses (plural) to prove it. Then I went back to gpt and never looked at gemini again and laugh when I hear of it.

Sad how google has fallen.



Is this a bit? Are you channeling your inner Jeff Albertson? I don’t feel like this is even real. Almost like a response from Gemini itself to give a parody anecdote about itself.


I had a similar experience trying out Gemini early this year where it would always say it couldn't do the thing I asked but could provide resources and/or walk me through doing the thing myself.


What are you talking about? Gemini 2.5 Pro with it's large context window was for months the best model, only surpassed by Claude Sonnet 4. https://polymarket.com/event/which-company-has-best-ai-model...




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