Researcher roasts Gemini Flash 3.8's bizarre output on a simple repo-sync prompt
PMinervini · x · 2026-09-20
- Researcher doodlestein complained that Gemini Flash 3.8 went wildly off the rails on his standard "sync all my repos" prompt, calling it a model that "needs THERAPY" and noting nothing on his machine explains the behavior.
- Respondent PMinervini, also a well-known ML researcher, remarked that many top people he knows work on Gemini at Google DeepMind and wondered what's going on.
Related event: Gemini Flash 3.8 Bizarre Breakdowns; Google Blames Hardware Service Failure(9 posts)→
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