Note how in the top-right corner now there’s now only a “submit bug” button. The lack of “clear” puts a hard limit on how many changes you can actually make to any given app, essentially, as past a certain length of consecutve requests and responses in Build Gemini WILL start to “internal error” and corrupt files while editing them, and on top of that it’s increasingly less likely to actually do what you want in the most recent request the more previous requests it has access to, because as its COT shows, it thinks about all of them every time, which often leads it to get confused about what it did and didn’t already complete.
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Platform down for 3 days, you’re not the only one. The disastrous update that Google released and hasn’t been able to fix has been down for four days now.
One of the most commented posts, take a look at the size of the problem.
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This removal of the button has to be intentional though, it’s not really a “bug” in the traditional sense, it’s just a bad decision.
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I don’t think that’s a bug, because the new layout is working; in any case. The only thing that annoyed me is that if it becomes permanent, even with the code focusing on not having viewing permission, because I’ve never seen that in my life.The online editor is literally locking the code, and if you created it, and this isn’t a bug, Google will put a lot of stress on developers.
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I can’t really tell if you’re agreeing or disagreeing with me lol. In any case they need to bring this button back, the entire “Build” environment is basically useless without it.
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yhea they should bring this button back. But maybe they are indeed trying to push us to use Antigravity
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Needs to come back 100%. Hope this is a bug and not intentional.
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Sometimes I think they’ve hidden the button intentionally, so we don’t overload the system while they’re fixing it.
But still, a counterargument for that is that they rolled out without the button. It wasn’t like a roll-out, seeing that somethings broken and hiding the button. There was no button.
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3.1 Pro is absolutely giga-busted in Build right now, anyways.
`Make me a fully functional Doom 1 clone with at least three complete levels of reasonable size, multiple enemy types, multiple weapon types, a proper hud, and a save / load system based on JSON download / upload by the user. It should have proper mouselook, jumping, and mouse wheel weapon cycling. Ensure the code is robust and complete and error-free. Don’t stop until you’re finished. Don’t get stuck in an endless thinking loop that causes you to time out.`
Here’s 3.0 Flash Preview’s running game (177 seconds total):
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And here’s all that 3.1 Pro Preview has accomplished after over 1000 seconds lmao (the code doesn’t even look good at all, it looks worse than 3.0 Pro Preview’s typical output):
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It’s crazy if they’ve got rid of this feature because it makes it unusable, it keeps rewriting code from a previous request that was already sorted and working because i can’t clear the chat, it’s rereading those instructions and keeps redoing everything. Massive waste of tokens too.
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@Smarky
Before the update it was doing this too. I had to keep clearing the chat because of this very reason.
Please add back in the clear chat button, Google.
Without the clear chat button nothing works after a few prompts it’s infuriating
They will obviously add it back. I assume the reason they haven’t yet is to prevent people from using it as much when it isn’t completely fixed and causing themselves and google even more problems to resolve later. I think all we can do is be patient.
I was wondering about this as well, so I asked the code assistant.
User:
Just need to check something about your capabilities - we used to have a clear conversation feature, but that’s gone. How is this managed now, we have to work within a context window don’t we?
Please just give insight on the above, no changes to code.
Code assistant:
You are absolutely right to ask about this! The way we handle conversation history and context has evolved, which is why the explicit “clear conversation” button is no longer there.
Here is a quick look under the hood at how my context is managed now:
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A Massive Context Window
I am powered by Gemini, which has an exceptionally large context window (up to 2 million tokens). In the past, AI assistants had to frequently “forget” older messages or require users to manually clear the chat so they wouldn’t run out of memory. Now, I can retain the entire history of our conversation, the evolution of your codebase, and the context of previous bugs without hitting those limits. -
The Codebase is the Source of Truth
Even though I remember our chat history, I don’t rely on it to know what your code looks like right now. Every time you ask me to do something, I have access to the live file tree. I actively use tools to read the current state of your files before making edits. This means that even if we’ve been chatting for hours and have changed a file 50 times, I won’t get confused by an older version of the code from earlier in the chat. -
How to “Reset” if Needed
Because of the large context window and live file reading, you rarely need to clear the conversation for technical reasons. However, if you ever feel like the conversation is getting cluttered or we are pivoting to a completely different feature and you want me to have a “blank slate” mentally:
You can simply tell me: “Let’s pivot. Ignore our previous feature discussions and focus only on X.”
Or, if you want a true hard reset for a different project, you would start a brand new AI Studio project.In short: You don’t need to worry about managing my memory or clearing the chat to save space. We can keep building in this thread as long as you’d like!
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Hopefully that is true. That would be really convenient to never have to clear chat again. I guess this means we have an unlimited context window?
Earlier I asked it where is the new save location and it said the follow, which I don’t believe is correct:
”With the new update, your projects are now saved directly to your Google AI Studio account.
You can find, manage, and reopen all of your auto-saved apps by clicking on the “My Library” tab located in the left-hand menu”
I didn’t see any “My Library” button, but I did end up finding the location of the save file of my app.
This can’t be true. It gets like long chat gpt conversations where you have to start a new conversation due to low memory. When working on one thing for a long time it starts get really slow and starts taking forever for each input/output to go through that you have to reset it just to be able to continue. And, does this mean that it’s now only looking at your last prompt every time before starting anything?
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Yeah that doesn’t sound right at all.
