Even without stats i know it went bad. In the pass two month barely can do any good scientific writing lately, which of course rely on reasoning. It just writing for gods sake. And it show how far we are from AGI.
> In the pass two month barely can do any good scientific writing lately, which of course rely on reasoning. It just writing for gods sake
Honestly, I think this is a really cool sentence. Imagine going back to 2021 and telling someone this was a legitimate complaint about a pretty cheap and very prevalent technology in 2026.
This is an intermittent issue, you should still be able to get your work done. 5.5 was released two months ago so perhaps you're using 5.5 wrong and some things that worked in 5.4 require tweaking your prompts?
Well, when 5.5 first came out, it was kind of OK, but now it's almost noticeably worse. It can be done, but requires a lot of effort, just more and more round, and actually, the Gemini Pro on the web (which should be 3.1 Pro) is actually doing a more stable job.
The thing that I ask it to do is like take X and Y paper into Z paragraph --- a not-so-silly model should think of how information in X and Y are related and how they support the whole article to synthesize this sentence in a way that is coherent to the article, but 5.5 now will just copy the stuff without any reasoning about the relation. Of course, this will cost a lot of tokens and will be obvious if not done. One clear indicator is that in a few rounds you can see the length of the article get bloated to 2-3x undesirably long, which is clearly because it is not analyzing/synthesizing the info.
Honestly, I think this is a really cool sentence. Imagine going back to 2021 and telling someone this was a legitimate complaint about a pretty cheap and very prevalent technology in 2026.