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For reasons of cockup which right now are kindve handy, I have a Pro and a separate Plus subscriptions.

Ive caught up with some of my previous chats, which exported to word .docs came to up to 13KB each. With a screenshot scrutinised & an image generated, my Pro usage as at 16% on the 5hr window, my plus account (text only) is at 7%.

I can see the update curbing my excesses a little, but as a heavy-casual user im dont seem likely to max my limits.

What ive seen so far is a good blend of context, both from way-back in chats, and introducing novel context outside of any previous topics. It seems *vibrant*, with Pro 3.1 & the new Flash 3.5. If we're seeing hardstops instead of soft throttling, I think that may be a positive change, frankly. At the very least, it seems to me we've got our compute back, whicb had gone AWOL in recent times. Yes it's a new release, and we know that means a temporary bump, on historic trends anyway.

As an honest assessment, ive found this a better outright upgrade than when we went from 2.5 to 3.0. It seems dynamic and engaging for the right reasons.

At first I thought 3.5 flash had considerably shorter replies, but then had a wildly longer response, and 3.1 Pro then gave a shorter one, when longer wasnt necessary. No filler bumpf, no grating unnecessary explanations (so far..)

Id gotten used to the foibles of 3.1 Pro, though they'd disappointed me at first. The new regime (incl. clear differences to 3.1 Pro) seems like a breath of fresh air.

As for the App, changes seem intuitive, not just fancy. Simple things, like text fading out towards the point of minimising looks good and is positively communicative. So too the buffering dots. It seems obvious its working, not just broken. The app seems more solid & optimised overall, as well as looking far sleeker. Sleeker & slicker.

I'd feared the worst, and ive seen a lot of complaints, but for my subjective usage, i'm feeling decidely optimistic having tried it out. On reflection, im struggling to find the gripes id expect to have found by now. I'm impressed enough to want to say so, no matter the dogpiling that might result. 🤷‍♂️ I'm pretty happy so far, though it pains my cynical outlook to admit it. 😅

3.5 Aside from tripling the price and increasing the speed, Flash still hasn't improved in creative writing, except for coding.

GJ,Another disappointment for paying users. When will a true LLM surpassing 0325 EXP be released?

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Gemini (for me at least) has always been the chat app for free users (if you were willing to put up with slightly bad UI and some other trade offs). You basically got unlimited Flash usage and you got some Pro queries which were enough for the rare times you’d need it (as a free user, for me at least)

Now yeah they refreshed the UI and (unfortunately, yes unfortunately) it looks so sick, I just got it on my iPhone and iPad but too bad you basically can’t use it freely because sneeze and your usage limit for the next 5 hours goes up by 2% or more.

I am speaking from the perspective of someone who doesn’t pay for AI and doesn’t use it that heavily, if I’m going to have to put up with strict quotas and weekly limits, I’ll just use Claude, quality of Claude is way higher imo and if I have limits on both obviously I’ll go for Claude any day of the week

(if you pay for Gemini and share my view please let me know)