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A comment on Gemini 4 Hydrogen.

Re:Gemini 4 Hydrogen by hodder on Thursday November 12, 2026 @01:12PM (#50471594)
Maybe I'm not on the latest models (I do actually pay the min plan), but just this week I tried Gemini again. It still doesn't even get the current date/time of day correct. If it cant do that, I cant trust any output from it. I have no idea how Google fumbled so badly, but benchmark scores don't mean a thing if you cant even get your LLM to output the current date and time correctly.

You could vibe code a better LLM with Fable than what they have delivered. It is embarassing.

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Re:Gemini 4 Hydrogen by iamdelirium on Thursday November 12, 2026 @01:15PM (#50471651)
What? I just asked it what time it was in my Gemini app and it told me.

What is your prompt?

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Re:Gemini 4 Hydrogen by hodder on Thursday November 12, 2026 @01:46PM (#50472156)
I asked about the time of market open for premarket trading for nasdaq trades. While it correctly determined when the pre markets would open, it then said it WAS open already by referencing the current time which was off by an hour. I told it where I was located and it then shifted by two hours. finally I told it to look it up and it got it correct.
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Re:Gemini 4 Hydrogen by throwitaway222 on Thursday November 12, 2026 @01:19PM (#50471698)
Most chat interfaces would likely put the current time inside the system prompt. Personally I think they should insert the time in every prompt though.
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