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Ladies and Gentlemen, Here's Gemini Deep Think when prompted with: "Create a svg of a pelican riding on a bicycle" https://www.svgviewer.dev/s/5R5iTexQ Beat Simon Willison to it :)

I don't have access but I wonder whether a dog on a jetski would be nearly as good

Re: Gemini 2.5 Deep Think

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I started doing some experimentation with this new Deep Think agent, and after five prompts I reached my daily usage limit. For $250 USD/mo that’s what you’ll be getting folks. It’s just bizarrely uncompetitive with o3-pro and Grok 4 Heavy. Anecdotally (from my experience) this was the one feature that enthusiasts in the AI community were interested in to justify the exorbitant price of Google’s Ultra subscription. I…

Interestingly Gemini CLI has a very generous free quota. Is Google's strategy just overpricing some stuff and subsidizing the underpriced stuff?

This is the fundamental pricing strategy of all modern software in fact.

Underpriced for consumers, overpriced for businesses.

Re: Gemini 2.5 Deep Think

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I started doing some experimentation with this new Deep Think agent, and after five prompts I reached my daily usage limit. For $250 USD/mo that’s what you’ll be getting folks. It’s just bizarrely uncompetitive with o3-pro and Grok 4 Heavy. Anecdotally (from my experience) this was the one feature that enthusiasts in the AI community were interested in to justify the exorbitant price of Google’s Ultra subscription. I…

Several years ago I thought a good litmus test for mastery of coding is not finding a solution using internet search nor getting well written questions about esoteric coding problems answered on StackOverflow. For a while, I would post a question and answer my own question after I solved the problem for posterity (or AI bots). I always loved getting the "I've been working on this for 3 days and you saved my life" com…

I have similar issues with support form companies that heavily push AI and self-serve models and make human support hard. I'm very accomplished and highly capable. If I feel the need to turn to support, the chances the solution is in a KB is very slim, same with AI. It'll be a very specific situation with a very specific need.

Re: Gemini 2.5 Deep Think

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post #146

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It's just wildly inconsistent to me. Some times it'll produce a work of genius. Other times, total garbage.

Unfortunately we are still in the prompt optimization stage, garbage in garbage out

Maybe. That could be true.

But doesn’t happen the same with other tools. I’ll give the same exact prompt to all of LLMs I have access to and look at the responses for the best one. Grok is consistently the worst. So if it’s garbage in, garbage out, why are the other ones so much better at dealing with my garbage?

Re: Gemini 2.5 Deep Think

#177

I started doing some experimentation with this new Deep Think agent, and after five prompts I reached my daily usage limit. For $250 USD/mo that’s what you’ll be getting folks. It’s just bizarrely uncompetitive with o3-pro and Grok 4 Heavy. Anecdotally (from my experience) this was the one feature that enthusiasts in the AI community were interested in to justify the exorbitant price of Google’s Ultra subscription. I…

Several years ago I thought a good litmus test for mastery of coding is not finding a solution using internet search nor getting well written questions about esoteric coding problems answered on StackOverflow. For a while, I would post a question and answer my own question after I solved the problem for posterity (or AI bots). I always loved getting the "I've been working on this for 3 days and you saved my life" com…

This has been my thought for a long time - unless there is some breakthrough in AI algo I feel like we are going to hit a "creativity wall" for coding (and some other tasks).

Re: Gemini 2.5 Deep Think

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post #174

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Several years ago I thought a good litmus test for mastery of coding is not finding a solution using internet search nor getting well written questions about esoteric coding problems answered on StackOverflow. For a while, I would post a question and answer my own question after I solved the problem for posterity (or AI bots). I always loved getting the "I've been working on this for 3 days and you saved my life" com…

I have similar issues with support form companies that heavily push AI and self-serve models and make human support hard. I'm very accomplished and highly capable. If I feel the need to turn to support, the chances the solution is in a KB is very slim, same with AI. It'll be a very specific situation with a very specific need.

There are a lot of internal KB's companies keep to themselves in their ticketing systems - would be interesting to estimate how much good data there is in there that could in the future be used to train more advanced (or maybe more niche or specific) AI models.

Re: Gemini 2.5 Deep Think

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our minds are incredibly energy efficient, that leads me to believe it is possible to figure out, but it might be a human rather than an AI that gives us something more akin to a biological solution.

This could fix my main gripe with The Matrix. ”Humans are used as batteries” always felt off, but it totally would make sense if the human brains have uniquely energy efficient pattern matching abilities that an emerging AI organism would harvest. That would also strengthen the spiritual humanist subtext.

Thats because the original script did actually have the human farms being used for brainpower for the machines. They changed it to "batteries" because they thought audiences at the time wouldnt understand it!

Re: Gemini 2.5 Deep Think

#180

Approach is analogous to Grok 4 Heavy: use multiple "reasoning" agents in parallel and then compare answers before coming back with a single response, taking ~30 minutes. Great results, though it would be more fair for the benchmark comparisons to be against Grok 4 Heavy rather than Grok 4 (the fast, single-agent model).

Surprised no one has released an app yet that pits all the major models against each other for a final answer.
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