Problemsby GlyphGemini gives confidently wrong answers
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In the same boat, I have a single seat Google workspace account, and can't figure out how to add Argon to my workspace. Asking Gemini seems to make it hallucinate pages that aren't there.
Need advice: Best VLM pipeline for extracting structured math datasets from 3000+ scanned textbook pages? (LaTeX + Metadata)
...for my use case. I got too many malformed fields, hallucinations, and it constantly struggled with outputting proper LaTeX.. Paid Google Cloud API (Gemini 1.5 Flash): I finally switched to the paid tier for better accuracy and speed. I ended up burning through €10 just to...
...send that to Gemini to ask questions about the content. It's particularly good for those frustrating recipe videos where they don't tell you quantities of ingredients to use - you can have Gemini hallucinate the quantities and it normally gets them about right.
Hallucinating
I asked simple questions about installing solar, and wasted a few days with information that was factually inaccurate after I cross referenced it. It was straight up, making up rates, percentages, and figures.
This App Is FRUSTRATING
This is far the most unintelligent artificial intelligence out there. I used this maybe a few months ago and it was great, but now it has become infuriating to use. It completely hallucinates, ignores questions and goes off topic completely and when you try to correct it, it...
Feature Request: Add PkgDiet dependency guardrail skill
We need to add a built-in skill for PkgDiet. This allows Gemini CLI to automatically intercept npm install commands, checking packages against the PkgDiet MCP server for health, bundle size, and deprecation status to prevent the agent from hallucinating or installing malicious...
Tired of coding agents modifying your unit tests just to fake a "pass"? Here is how to stop them at the runtime level.
...you want to do.. Every developer using autonomous coding agents knows this specific frustration:. You give the agent a task, a unit test fails, and instead of diagnosing the bug in the implementation, the agent quietly comments out the assertion, slaps .skip , or loosens the...
Built an Ambient Voice AI & MCP Grounding Layer for 500+ page enterprise manuals (Gemini 2.0 + Cloud Run + React 19)
...In financial surveillance and AML platforms, engineers and compliance teams constantly struggle with dense PDF guides. When setting up ActOne. 10.2 or configuring DART real-time streaming, a wrong config parameter breaks transaction monitoring. Standard LLMs hallucinate...
Critical Hallucination: Agent injects colloquial conversation into output and falsely attributes it to user prompt
### What happened? [ACTION REQUIRED] 📎 PLEASE ATTACH THE EXPORTED CHAT HISTORY JSON FILE TO THIS ISSUE IF YOU FEEL COMFORTABLE SHARING IT ### What did you expect to happen? The agent suffered a severe hallucination, generating a block of text that resembled an informal, highly...
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9 posts from 9 people in 6 places, about 1 a week over 43 days. Mostly on google-gemini/gemini-cli, Hacker News comments, Gemini App Store reviews. Tools named alongside: GitHub, Model Context Protocol, Google Cloud, VS Code.
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Posts that state a pain and match the "hallucination" rule about Gemini. First post Sep 1, 2026, latest Oct 13, 2026. Corroborated: 3 or more posts from 2 or more people or places. Method
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