Why do Gemini agents periodically show superhuman insight then turn dumb?
menhguin · x · 2026-11-07
A widely retweeted question captures a common frustration: why do Gemini agents periodically exhibit seemingly superhuman insight before reverting to being generally dumb?
No answers are given, but the observation resonates broadly — agent performance instability is widely noticed yet poorly explained, with plausible factors including sampling randomness, context accumulation, and shifting reasoning paths.
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