Ten days ago I had an experience with Gemini 3.8 flash that made me wonder if I was being routed to a different model under test. I was trying to use rocm with llama.cpp on my 128gb Strix Halo but could only get it to run Vulkan. I pasted the error message into agy and it proceeded to attach GDB to my GPU driver, reverse-engineer the kernel queue ioctl interface, and author an LD_PRELOAD C shim to get ROCm llama.cpp working on my Strix Halo. My jaw was hanging open the whole time.
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My experience with Gemini 3.8 Flash has been awful; it gives me the most hallucinations out of the major models. I'm not using it for coding, but general research on different topics.
I agree. It's much worse than the cheap Chinese models. They appear to heavily bias parametric knowledge and discourage tool use. That's fine for things like "how do I perform CPR?" but worse than useless for any kind of research. [There is one benchmark showing far lower rates of hallucination, so let's see how accurate this is.](<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1wuj72j/gemini_4_argon_solved_hallucinations/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1wuj72j/gemini...)
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