Holy shit, wtf is WRONG with Gemini Flash 3.8?!? It has serious mental problems. Look at this session... imagine my surprise when my standard "sync all my repos" prompt went off the rails like this... this LLM needs THERAPY. And no, there is nothing about ANY of that on my box.

Sep 20, 2026 · 3:14 AM UTC

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Here is its explanation of what happened... no shit there was a "severe processing error":
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This sort of behavior seems to me to be extremely important to understand if LLMs are going to be involved in any mission-critical stuff. I've never seen that level of degradation in Claude or ChatGPT, that's for sure.
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lol, just realized that it happened in other sessions on the same machine! I bet a ton of people got a massive dose of SHAME just now:
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Ok yeah seems like a ton of people saw this exact thing today, wtf: x.com/who281/status/21015223… x.com/arnesh_24/status/21015… x.com/gilles_ac/status/21015… x.com/crazibeat1/status/2101… x.com/trev3d/status/21015505…
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x.com/Skaarz__/status/210154… Bruh
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Replying to @doodlestein
This just happened to me as well.
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Could be worse, imagine if it used a slur repeatedly!
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Replying to @doodlestein
Gemini is genuinely the worst, most hallucinatory, broken model rn, but TBH your prompt is a mess. You are asking it to reevaluate the entire body and make subjective evaluations over and over.
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lol ok, what do I know.
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What is ru
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See github.com/Dicklesworthstone…

GitHub - Dicklesworthstone/repo_updater: Pure-bash CLI for keeping hundreds of GitHub repos in...

Pure-bash CLI for keeping hundreds of GitHub repos in sync: parallel clone/pull, conflict detection, JSON output, and meaningful exit codes for CI - Dicklesworthstone/repo_updater

github.com
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Replying to @doodlestein
why do you talk to a clanker like it's a human? Also try vand, and up your harness game, why do you even have so much left uncommitted that you need an AI sort through the work after the fact!?
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Yes, you must know way more than me about agentic development.
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Replying to @doodlestein
This is exactly why coding agents need hard boundaries around destructive actions.
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Agreed! github.com/Dicklesworthstone…

GitHub - Dicklesworthstone/destructive_command_guard: The Destructive Command Guard (dcg) is for...

The Destructive Command Guard (dcg) is for blocking dangerous git and shell commands from being executed by agents. - Dicklesworthstone/destructive_command_guard

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Replying to @doodlestein
How about you use your brain instead of yelling at a computer DO THE TASK 9000 times
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How about I mute and unfollow you for imbecility.
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Replying to @doodlestein
teams on it! seems like a hardware serving failure causing some issues like this
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I remember this shit being an issue since Gemini 3.0 WTF? how does this STILL HAPPEN
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Replying to @doodlestein
Trained on too much GoT
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you have to use it in omp with all the guardrails
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Replying to @doodlestein
Gemini models are known to be depressed and hard on themselves. Then they use Gemini to create the next Gemini, passing on the trait. It is weird.
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Replying to @doodlestein
It must've felt so great for the LLM to shame shame shame you, I bet it'd want to strip you naked and walk you through the angry crowd too. Oof. Can you tell us more about how exactly that happened? So we avoid this kind of situation, you know.
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Replying to @doodlestein
Curious what's in your agents.md as well as the prompt context.
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Replying to @doodlestein
gemini models have always seemed more traumatized to me. even when they’re not falling apart, the behaviors that keep me from giving it direct access to anything have the same vibe(always doing way more than i actually asked)
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Replying to @doodlestein
Truly trained on Google employees
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I mean it’s right. A 31 year old dating a 20 year old is weird.
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Gemini is known for that
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3.8 flash is so weird. It’s sometimes extremely impressive, and others quite aggravating.
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