Gemini

If on Gemini Advanced you say > Did you know that there is no country in Africa that starts with the letter "k"? The answer is > Kenya is a country in Africa that begins with the letter "k." So, in Google search is using another model?

The coding assistant for VSCode is nuts (i.e. gets it wrong a lot, also one time it just got so confused). I have Gemini Pro for free for a year because I bought a Pixel phone, it answers very fast, so I like it. Let's see how I'll feel about shelling out real money when the subscription ends. But on the phone, I still use Assistant (and just have a shortcut to launch the webpage in my browser), because the phone was forcing Gemini, but after 5 minutes of usage I found it was slower for my usages (usually I just tell it to set an alarm and add a reminder/calendar event), and when I asked about my tasks, Gemini would get the task listing from Google Tasks, and keep it in its history... that'll pollute my chat history!

I uninstall the gemini app and disable the google app. It seems they are heavily linked so remmoving it may do the trick. As a practice I don't use any google apps if I can find a good replacement so I am not sure if messages is impacted.

I'm frustrated with Gemini Advanced because of this. It's very good at interacting with calendar and stuff like a digital assistant IF you use text to talk to it. The speech to text is awful (and borderline dangerous).