r/Gemini • u/Unique-Pitch9402 • 8h ago
Discussion Gemini has gotten borderline unusable ā "I seem to be encountering an error" nearly every single time now
I need to vent because I'm honestly at my breaking point with this.
Ever since Gemini Flash 3.6 dropped, I'm getting hit with some rotation of "I seem to be encountering an error. Can I try something else for you?" on more than 95% of my prompts. Not an exaggeration. It's not one weird edge case, it's the default experience now.
And here's the thing ā this isn't new. This exact error started popping up back when Flash 3.5 launched too. So this isn't a one-off bug, it's a pattern. Every major flash release seems to come bundled with a wave of these errors, like nobody's stress-testing this before it ships to actual users.
On top of that, for the last couple of weeks, the accuracy has cratered. Gemini was straight up ignoring instructions ā not misunderstanding them, ignoring them. Simple, explicit instructions. That alone was annoying enough to make me question sticking with it.
But now the constant error-looping makes the instruction-following problem look minor by comparison. At least when it ignores my instructions, I get something back. Now I'm just staring at an apology bot on repeat.
I don't know if this is a backend capacity issue, a broken model rollout, or what ā but for a flagship product this is genuinely embarrassing. If I'm paying for this or relying on it for actual work, I need it to work more than 5% of the time.
Anyone else getting buried in this error loop since 3.6 rolled out? Curious if this is widespread or if I've just got the worst luck in the world.
TL;DR: Gemini is currently error-looping on almost every prompt since Flash 3.6 launched, this happened with 3.5 too, and it's on top of weeks of the model just ignoring instructions. Rough combo.
