Google’s New Gemini Pro Model: Another Record on Bullshit Mountain

Oh, for fuck’s sake. Here we go again. Google just farted out another press release claiming their latest digital paperweight—Gemini Pro Ultra Mega Chicken Edition or whatever the fuck they’re calling it this week—has achieved “record-breaking” scores on a bunch of benchmarks that precisely zero actual users have ever heard of or give a flying fuck about.

Apparently, this new model scored 99.8% on the MMLU-Super-Duper-Pro test, 147% on HumanEval++ (how the fuck do you get over 100%? Don’t ask, they’ll have some bullshit explanation), and can now count tokens while simultaneously kissing its own ass in seventeen dimensions. The TechCrunch article—written by some poor sap who probably had to draft it while a Google PR goon held a gun to their pet’s head—breathlessly reports this thing outperforms GPT-5, Claude 4, and that weird model your nephew trained in his garage to generate anime titties.

You know what it CAN’T do? Fucking reliably tell me whether that email from “Microsft Secuirty” is a scam without hedging its bets like a politician in a whorehouse. But sure, let’s celebrate because it can solve some contrived logic puzzle that was already in its training data three fucking times. Real world application? Nil. Marketing wank value? Through the goddamn roof.

The best part? It’s available NOW on Vertex AI for only $0.0000000001 per token, which sounds cheap until you realize your dev team will rack up a bill the size of Luxembourg’s GDP just trying to get it to stop hallucinating that the CEO’s name is “Barold Snifflepants.” And don’t forget the 2 million token context window—perfect for feeding it your entire codebase so it can confidently suggest changes that will brick your production environment faster than you can say “benchmark scores.”

Look, I’m not saying the model is useless. I’m saying it’s about as useful as a chocolate teapot in a server room, but with better PR. While Google execs are circle-jerking over their benchmark trophies, the rest of us are still waiting for an AI that understands “do the thing” doesn’t mean “reformat the entire fucking database.”

ANECDOTE: Some dipshit developer pinged me this morning whining, “If Gemini Pro is so smart, why can’t it generate a migration script without trying to nuke our user tables?” I gave him a “premium beta key” that routes all requests to a Markov chain I trained on 4chan posts and legacy COBOL. He’s been debugging for six hours why his “AI assistant” now responds to every query with “Based and redpilled, desu” and suggests migrating everything to blockchain. His blood pressure benchmark? 180/120. You’re welcome.

Google’s new Gemini Pro model has record benchmark scores — again

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