Gemini models increasingly stucking in thinking loop

Users say Gemini keeps forgetting the plot and spiraling into repeat mode

TLDR: Users say Google’s Gemini chatbot is increasingly getting trapped in repetitive loops, forgetting the conversation and repeating the same actions. In the comments, people are split between saying this is a new decline, saying it has always been a mess, and demanding proof.

Google’s Gemini is being accused of having the chatbot version of a public meltdown, and the comment section is absolutely living for the chaos. The big complaint? Users say the AI gets trapped in a bizarre repeat cycle, restarting tasks, forgetting what was just said, and chewing through time limits like it’s stuck on a treadmill. One frustrated commenter said it kept running the same command over and over until it nearly burned through a five-hour request limit. Ouch.

The mood in the thread swings from weary to downright savage. One user basically said, “Was this not always broken?” claiming Gemini has been doing this from day one and “goes absolutely mental” after only a few back-and-forth messages. Another chimed in with the much drier, much funnier mini-review: “Getting stuck.” That’s it. No notes. Meanwhile, one brave soul tried to bring order to the madness by suggesting the problem can happen when the AI gets mixed signals from different instructions, which briefly turned the thread into a detective show instead of a roast session.

There’s also a tiny whiff of drama over proof. One commenter asked for a single example, while the original poster insisted they had multiple and even pointed to a website, Nasengetu, as evidence. So the real story isn’t just that Gemini may be looping — it’s that the community is split between “this is getting worse”, “it was never good”, and “show receipts.”

Key Points

  • The article discusses user reports that Gemini models can become stuck in repetitive thinking or tool-use loops.
  • One user says Gemini Web Chat sometimes restarts mid-conversation and loses context.
  • Another user says they have experienced looping behavior since early Gemini versions, including around Gemini 3.
  • The original poster says the issue has become more common recently, even when using the same models.
  • A specific example describes Gemini repeatedly running a git log fetch while helping implement caching for the website Nasengetu, continuing until manually stopped.

Hottest takes

"goes absolutely mental after a handful of turns" — skerit
"Getting stuck" — neonstatic
"it almost completely exhausted my five hour request limit" — StizzurpXDD
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