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Gemini.
- Episodes
- 15
- First seen
- 035 MAR 31 2025
- Last seen
- 081 SEP 06 2026
- Spoken mentions
- 102
The Fast Hours take
Rory and Drew treat Gemini as Google's quietly reliable workhorse — powering Weavy and Flora's multi-image blending (Ep. 38), giving Rory his favorite consistent-character generation outside Midjourney (Ep. 39), and becoming his default fast node for splitting prompts in live builds (Ep. 79). The only knock is that it lagged Nano Banana on edit resolution at first (Ep. 61) and once unsettled Rory by answering from context 'it already knows' unprompted (Ep. 69) — otherwise the hosts call 2.5 'good at writing' (Ep. 75).
Into it 12Mixed 1 Not sold 0Discussed 2 oldest → newest
Receipts about Gemini
“When I'm doing things with Claude and I need to read the threads, or I'm doing something with Gemini and I need to read it, I feel like I read the equivalent of a book a day.”
“I mean, these are just numbers to me. I don't know what goes into them. I don't know how they're tested.”
“It's also mapping how I think. That's what I mean. It already knows.”
Every episode with Gemini
- Episode 81 SEP 06 2026 How We Use AI to Run Our Businesses With Skills, Agents & MCPs Jokingly consulted to diagnose a hangover; also interviewed by Claude in-browser for six hours to research Nano Banana 2 Discussed
- Episode 79 AUG 23 2026 AI Workflows Brands Actually Pay Five Figures For Rory's default fast LLM node for splitting one prompt into several via array or text-iterator nodes. Into it
- Episode 75 JUL 26 2026 How to Make AI Images That Don’t Scream “I Used AI” 2.5 · Gemini 2.5 was 'the first model to be good at writing,' powering Finn's automated SEO blog-article pipeline. Into it
- Episode 69 MAY 24 2026 Google Dropped Too Many AI Tools. Which Ones Matter? Gemini 3.5 Flash · Discussed as Rory's go-to for search-like questions; also flagged for unexplained personal context. Mixed
- Episode 62 FEB 01 2026 Midjourney v8 Is Late, the Skill Gap Is Growing, and AI Agents Unionized Used for multi-step, web-search-grounded image edits, such as looking up a real product before rendering it. Into it
- Episode 61 JAN 10 2026 Live Visual AI AMA: You Asked. And We Went There Noted as having had early natural-language image editing too, just at lower resolution than Nano Banana. Discussed
- Episode 60 JAN 01 2026 Fast Hours 2025 Wrapped: Tools, Shifts, and Wake Up Calls 2.5 · Part of Google's breakout year; praised for multimodal, conversational image editing alongside GPT. Into it
- Episode 59 DEC 21 2025 Midjourney v8 Countdown + Nano Banana Pro vs ChatGPT Image 1.5 Used to generate the car renders and to build a free custom Nano Banana tool in AI Studio. Into it
- Episode 58 DEC 03 2025 Midjourney Edit Models + Nano Banana Pro: Eating Lunches in the Upside Down Gemini 3 Pro · Used inside Google AI Studio to write and refine system prompts and if-then logic for image tools. Into it
- Episode 57 NOV 22 2025 Two Midjourney Drops in 48 Hours + Nano Banana Pro Pulls Up with a Nuke Gemini 3 · Summarized a full podcast episode from just a YouTube link and auto-played the audio inline on mobile. Into it
- Episode 42 JUN 09 2025 Can Midjourney Actually Compete in Video? +Sref & Monetization Talk Cited alongside Runway, Flux, and GPT as already solving multi-image consistency Into it
- Episode 40 MAY 26 2025 Veo 3 Makes Yesterday's Best Look Like a Beta Test +Runway & Midjourney Check-In 2.5 · Bundled into Google's Flow suite; can blend reference images natively via prompting Into it
- Episode 39 MAY 09 2025 Midjourney Omni-Reference and --exp: Showing You How They Actually Work Rory's pick for best consistent-character generation outside Midjourney; put a generated outfit on a person in one prompt Into it
- Episode 38 APR 22 2025 Midjourney v7: Secret Playground of Chaos & Weird + Overhauled Editor Gemini 2.0 · Powers Weavy's and Flora's multi-image blending for consistent multi-character scenes and product-shot iteration Into it
- Episode 35 MAR 31 2025 ChatGPT Image Gen Just Went Nuclear! + A (Final) Midjourney V7 Preview Its image editing now handles simple pose or angle changes without needing a trained LoRA first Into it
Quick answers
When did Fast Hours first talk about Gemini?
Gemini first came up in Episode 35, “ChatGPT Image Gen Just Went Nuclear! + A (Final) Midjourney V7 Preview”, published March 31, 2025.
What is the latest Fast Hours episode about Gemini?
The most recent is Episode 81, “How We Use AI to Run Our Businesses With Skills, Agents & MCPs” (September 6, 2026).
How many Fast Hours episodes discuss Gemini?
15 episodes so far. In the 15 we have logged in detail, Rory and Drew were into it 12 times, mixed 1, not sold 0, and simply discussed it 2.
