alt Hacker NewsI think that's Gemini trying to personalize the answer specifically for you. It really leans heavily into that to the point of being galling.
You can give it additional instructions in the settings, but you have to be careful with that too. I've put my tech stack and code preferences in there to get better code examples. A while later I asked it about binary executable formats and it started ending every answer with "but the JVM and v8 take care of that for you."
Which is both funny in an "I, Robot" kind of way, and irritating. So I told it to ignore my tech stack. I have a master's in CS and can handle a bit of technical detail.
Turns out, Gemini learned sarcasm. Every following answer in that thread got a paragraph that started with something like "But for your master brain, this means..."
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The new memory feature in Gemini got turned on by default and every answer came out like this. It kept working in details from one particularly long thread. Everything was framed in terms of the common elements. Everything. I turned it off immediately.
Even Gemini 2.5 was extremely snarky. I basically disable all guardrails via prompts and instructions, and it started getting snippy at me for apparently acting like a know-it-all.