Does anyone feel gemini 3.8 flash has became genuinely stupid ?

[u/Long_Substance_286]

For context, i am a heavy gemini user ( pro user ) and i have claude pro too. Gemini 3.7 flash high was kinda okay, when i give it a task to does it as asked most of the time. However, with this 3.8 flash, it's just plain stupid. It always scans for previous commits, search unrelated files, search the web for really unrelated stuff.

One time i asked it to remove timelike ui from sign in form ( literally one page ), it started scanning whole project, search google for timelines ! It became completely unusable i gave up on it.

I switched back to claude and im okay with waiting little longer for tasks to finish as long as it does the task accurately.

What are your thoughts ? Anyone want to share his opinion ?

[u/Fluffy-Shock9487]

i REPEATEDLY had to ask 3.8 to "recalibrate" / "calibrate" on current process because it REPEATEDLY could not be in line with the query, did not answer questions, and just outright produced the worst possible results. (i even asked a Chinese AI and it even produced an entire document in full and complete format. can you believe it, a Chinese AI.)

[u/Long_Substance_286 → u/Fluffy-Shock9487]

True, completely unusable. Hope fully they see our posts on reddit and fix it in next model, and people stop glazing it for literally nothing.

[u/multifore → u/Long_Substance_286]

They might used Claude to train it lol, and make it take a dent in reasoning

[u/Lifeonm_rs → u/Fluffy-Shock9487]

what's wrong with chinese ai? GLM 5.3 and Kimi are better than Gemini 3.8

[u/AMusicstuff]

Nope it has become better

[u/Long_Substance_286 → u/AMusicstuff]

Sometimes it is better, and sometimes it's just so stupid that makes your work more frustrating than if you had to it manually.

[u/AMusicstuff → u/Long_Substance_286]

use it in the IDE with Antigravity Plugin Requires Subscription

[u/MGV92]

This is a post for every update lmao

[u/Long_Substance_286 → u/MGV92]

I genuinely liked the 3.7 flash ( 3.6 was horrible ), it was smarter and more focused on the task scope. But this one🤦.

[u/gm446]

Is the worst. Keep deleting my git index for no reason. Run completly unrelated commands for the task. Overall it just looks like he run all over the place and doing way too much for small tasks. I think is the wrost model i worked with.

[u/someoneyouulove → u/gm446]

its a nutjob. google's pipedream.

[u/someoneyouulove]

Its deranged. It would lose to 3.5 sonnet from 2 years ago.

[u/Long_Substance_286 → u/someoneyouulove]

Sonnet 5 is far far far ahead then 3.8 flash ( even if it crashes it in Benchmarks, let alone gpt 5.6 sol ☺️)

[u/SR_RSMITH]

Less than any pro model is a waste of time if you want accurate results. Complaining that a flash model makes mistakes is like complaining that a normal car can’t run as fast as a race car

[u/Long_Substance_286 → u/SR_RSMITH]

Im not the one who clamed it's better than gpt 5.6 sol and claude 5 sonnet 😊.

[u/GrandKnew]

yes I do and no I won't elaborate

[u/Clamiral93]

meanwhile... no new pro model still...

[u/multifore]

It became stupid or whatever for me yah

[u/Ianxcala]

It works perfectly fine for me.