{"slug": "ask-hn-is-it-just-me-or-has-gemini-enshittified-in-the-last-three-weeks", "title": "Ask HN: Is it just me or has Gemini enshittified in the last three weeks?", "summary": "Gemini Pro users are reporting a significant increase in rate-limiting since early May, coinciding with a UI update and the release of the Gemini 3.5 Preview model. One long-term subscriber noted the service has become more restrictive than Claude, raising questions about whether Google is shifting compute resources away from direct consumer use. The change suggests that subsidized LLM access for consumers may be ending, even for companies like Google with substantial resources.", "body_md": "As someone who's been using the Gemini Pro plan for the past 9 months, I noticed a massive jump in the amount of rate-limiting I'm getting from Gemini since around the beginning of May.\n\nIt seems to coincide with the updated UI and the release of the Gemini 3.5 Preview model.\n\nFor the better part of this year, Gemini was my go-to model for answering simple questions quickly. The google search plug-in made it super easy to ask, and it seemed to have endless capacity for research and complex answers on the $20/month plan. Meanwhile, I used Claude very sparingly, and saved most of my Pro plan for Claude Code tokens. Now I find that I'm rate-limited by Gemini harder than Claude. Is compute being shifted away from Gemini behind the scenes?\n\nMaybe LLM compute is finally moving away from subsidized direct consumer use. Still, I had previously thought that Gemini would be the last man standing in that use case, as Google seemed to have the most money to burn.\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48269407](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48269407)\n\nPoints: 1\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-is-it-just-me-or-has-gemini-enshittified-in-the-last-three-weeks", "canonical_source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48269407", "published_at": "2026-05-25 17:31:34+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-25 17:38:02.942245+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["large-language-models", "artificial-intelligence", "ai-products", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["Gemini", "Google", "Claude", "Gemini Pro", "Gemini 3.5 Preview", "Hacker News"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-is-it-just-me-or-has-gemini-enshittified-in-the-last-three-weeks", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-is-it-just-me-or-has-gemini-enshittified-in-the-last-three-weeks.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-is-it-just-me-or-has-gemini-enshittified-in-the-last-three-weeks.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-is-it-just-me-or-has-gemini-enshittified-in-the-last-three-weeks.jsonld"}}