- "Ah so you think data is your ally? you merely scraped data, i was born in it, moulded by it, did not spare a single user until I was already a man"
Skepticism is still needed though. The other day I asked Gemini while driving if there's a HoV lane going from 105 E to 110 S. It said yes. Actually there one to 110 N but not S. I did not act upon it because my co-passenger verified that Gemini was wrong.
Search summary is useful but not for things that require deeper technical expertise- those result in bad hallucination.
With corporate crunch on token budget, I've also started avoiding Claude and increasingly using opencode+Gemma 4, and developing some system prompts to iteratively improve the results.
Pushing it for an explanation on every instance, it says that it ends up not relying on the query of the user to generate the answer. (?)
I've noticed that adding the line "check your answer before answering" gets it to replace English words got Chinese characters..
Funky stuff these flagship products.