Gemini Flash 3.8 went haywire — Google says a hardware serving failure was to blame
OfficialLoganK · x · 2026-09-20
A user reported Gemini Flash 3.8 going completely off the rails on a routine 'sync all my repos' prompt, calling the behavior unhinged. Google's Logan Kilpatrick responded that teams are on it and such issues were caused by a hardware serving failure — an unusually direct admission that the incident was server-side infrastructure, not the model or the user's environment.
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