Users blast Google for replacing handy utilities with worse, slower Gemini versions
cephaloform · x · 2026-09-09
Users are complaining that Google has replaced nice, fast premade utilities with versions that route through Gemini, only to return wrong answers after an LLM pass. Quoter airshaped quips that making the product worse surely won't help Google compete against LLMs — part of a growing backlash against forced AI-fication of working tools.
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