What happened?
here is my chatgpt chat about this issue: https://chatgpt.com/share/69e0b46e-d5dc-8386-b6a6-e4eda6d6f26e
What did you expect to happen?
This now makes the flash limits unacceptably small for a pro plan and I will have to switch to another provider like GLM if it is not resolved.
Client information
Client Information
Run gemini to enter the interactive CLI, then run the /about command.
> /about
# paste output here
Login information
No response
Anything else we need to know?
Most interesting is that asking gemini what a flag does on a command line tool repo now takes 10 requests when before it would use 1 or at most 2
Update: Version 0.38.1 now uses 6 flash requests for the same query in a new chat and version v0.40.0-nightly.20260415.g06e7621b2 uses 4, however using nightly to ask two further basic questions uses up 34 more requests: "why doesnt the preview always do that when using --preview or when performing an actual transfer. i don't understand why it is an optional optimisation" and "does this copy dedupe hardlinks" . I then asked gemini to implement a flag that dedupes hardlinks and that task alone consumed 20% of the daily limit for flash on the pro plan. Before I could use flash heavily for a day and only use 30% of the limit maximum.
What happened?
here is my chatgpt chat about this issue: https://chatgpt.com/share/69e0b46e-d5dc-8386-b6a6-e4eda6d6f26e
What did you expect to happen?
This now makes the flash limits unacceptably small for a pro plan and I will have to switch to another provider like GLM if it is not resolved.
Client information
Client Information
Run
geminito enter the interactive CLI, then run the/aboutcommand.Login information
No response
Anything else we need to know?
Most interesting is that asking gemini what a flag does on a command line tool repo now takes 10 requests when before it would use 1 or at most 2
Update: Version 0.38.1 now uses 6 flash requests for the same query in a new chat and version v0.40.0-nightly.20260415.g06e7621b2 uses 4, however using nightly to ask two further basic questions uses up 34 more requests: "why doesnt the preview always do that when using --preview or when performing an actual transfer. i don't understand why it is an optional optimisation" and "does this copy dedupe hardlinks" . I then asked gemini to implement a flag that dedupes hardlinks and that task alone consumed 20% of the daily limit for flash on the pro plan. Before I could use flash heavily for a day and only use 30% of the limit maximum.