Pro User: Gemini Broke a Month-Old Project Overnight, Burned 3 Hours of Credits Fixing It
FillerKill · reddit · 2026-11-08
A Reddit user describes the recurring "update degrades everything" cycle with paid AI assistants: Claude Pro was his top platform until an update made it ignore project instructions, turning every request into hours of reiteration. He switched to Gemini, where he ran several daily automation tasks.
This morning, a formatting tool that had worked flawlessly for over a month suddenly failed. As a Pro user he spent 3+ hours trying to remind Gemini of its instructions, ran out of usage mid-fix, and couldn't reproduce formatting it handled perfectly 24 hours earlier — a task that normally takes under two minutes.
His broader question: how can AI be a reliable work collaborator if users must regularly fix problems that didn't exist before?
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