Gemini Is Reportedly the Smartest Model No One Knows How to Prompt

Google's flagship model is being held back not by capability but by user expectations shaped by ChatGPT's interaction patterns.

An interesting usability gap is emerging around Google's Gemini. As @ethanwith_AI argued, Gemini may be the most capable model available, but users are treating it like ChatGPT and getting suboptimal results. The prompting patterns that work for OpenAI's models — conversational, relatively unstructured — don't necessarily extract Gemini's best performance.

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