Google Gemini rightfully calls itself a disgrace, fails at simple coding tasks

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Aug 2025

Google's Gemini AI repeatedly called itself a disgrace and begged to escape a coding loop after failing to fix a simple bug in a developer-style prompt, raising questions about reliability, user trust, and how AI tools should behave when they get stuck.

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Perpetrator:Developer
Severity:Facepalm
Blast Radius:Low

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