I had to switch to Gemini on my phone cause Google assistant kept crashing my entire fucking phone no matter what I tried. Even a full wipe and start over it would just crash it.

The thing is fucking worthless. I use it basically ONLY to turn my lights on/off from bed and to call my mother while driving

90% of the time it doesn't understand what a light is and the other half it just randomly calls someone on my contacts instead of who i said.

Google assistant at least was reliable when it wasn't out right nonfunctioning.

Gemini 2.5 used to be solid. It still would fuck up sometimes, but its ability to remember small details throughout a long conversation and weave them in as relevant was phenomenal. It felt conversationally good to use it for that reason, at least for bouncing ideas off of and getting perspectives I didn't consider myself.

Every model of it since has been like talking to a compulsive liar that also has dementia. Like someone you can largely trust to go cook some eggs, but tell them to go grab a complex recipe I asked for last week and make it again, and they'll confidently say they've never seen that recipe before or made it in their life. I guess lobotomizing your product compared to your competitors all in the name of saving on cost seemed like a good idea to someone at Google