Mixed
2.5 Flash/nano-banana is a major step up but still has small model gaps peeking through
BoorishBears on Hacker News
In the thread “Gemini 2.5 Flash Image”
Got in the way: Repetition, lack of world knowledge, and missing nuance in instructions.
… I experimented heavily with 2.0 for a site I work on, but it never left preview and it had some gaps that were clearly due to being a small model (like lacking world knowledge, struggling with repetition, missing nuance in instructions, etc.) 2.5 Flash/nano-banana is a major step up but still has small model gaps peeking through. It still gets to "locked in" states where it's just repeating itself, which is a similar failure mode of small models for creative writing tasks. …