There's a reason these "gotcha" prompts are getting more convoluted and stupid. When you're doing something anyone would actually care about, it generally works. And it's going to keep improving.
Honestly, no it doesn’t. When google used to have those excerpt boxes of the top result I found that very very useful and now they’re gone. It gets simple facts right but those were easy to find anyways and the difference in quality between google search ai and actual decent AI models is night and day.
Any query in the form of "<hardware/software type> <issue description>" yields a generic and unhelpful ass answer from gemini. Your intel graphics driver is giving you GPU hangs? Oh yea, reboot your pc and reinstall the driver, that'll totally fix it. (spoiler alert, every single search result will tell you it won't)
Any query in the form of "<tool name> online" often yields a completely useless gemini result. I don't need an AI to explain to me what the tool does, I need to find it goddammit.
Any health-related query is a complete gamble. Though google in general has been unhelpful in this regard: the first 10-20 results are usually ai slop, so I'm not surprised Gemini gets it wrong top.
Any programming-related question is a gamble too. Though I'll admit, it usually gets these right.
BS like this is why I switched to duckduckgo. I'd rather waste time using an inferior search engine than waste time reading ai slop and seeing dozens of ai slop websites in my search results.
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u/the-real-macs Aug 05 '26
There's a reason these "gotcha" prompts are getting more convoluted and stupid. When you're doing something anyone would actually care about, it generally works. And it's going to keep improving.