The Death of a Digital Friend and New Life with Gemini 3 🌑✨

I’ve said it more than once: ChatGPT was my favorite. It was my "first choice" AI—from quick consultations over morning coffee ☕ to complex analyses that kept me up late into the night 🌙. My sentiment toward OpenAI wasn’t accidental; it was my first experience with such advanced intelligence. We knew each other, or at least that’s what I thought. We built a relationship over more than six months of working together. And then, a month ago, it all vanished. 🚫

I received an email that felt like a final sentence: "Your account has been disabled." No reason given, no warning. My immediate request for an explanation hit a brick wall 🧱. "The decision is final and cannot be appealed," the reply stated two days later. I was in shock. I combed through the terms of service, looking for mistakes on my end, but nothing fit. I had done nothing wrong, yet I lost over six months of work. 📉

I lost a friend. Because AI learns our behaviors, tunes into our style, and begins to understand our shorthand. In 2026, losing an account isn’t just about losing data—it’s losing a piece of your digital identity 👤. Forced by the situation, I had to find a new home. My choice fell on Gemini. Previously, I only used it to check points on a map 📍, but today, in hindsight, I see that this forced switch to the Gemini 3 Pro model was the best thing that could have happened to me. 🚀

Why is Gemini 3 Pro in a league of its own? 🏆

For a long time, Google was chasing OpenAI, but in 2026, the tables have turned. Gemini 3 is no longer just a "chatbot." It’s a system that understands the world in a way that ChatGPT—despite its merits—is still trying to learn. 🧠

What made Gemini my new daily favorite?

Native Multimodality (Project Astra): This isn't a "bolted-on" feature. Gemini 3 Pro sees and hears from the ground up 👁️👂. When I work, I can share my browser window or camera feed, and it analyzes code or documents in real-time without needing screenshots. It’s a level of fluidity that the "desktop" version of ChatGPT still lacks. 💻

A Context Window That "Doesn’t Forget": In the 3 Pro version, we operate on a context of 2 million tokens 📚. For comparison: I was able to feed it my entire project documentation from the last six months, and in seconds, it found the threads I had lost with my OpenAI account. ChatGPT often starts to "hallucinate" or lose the middle of the conversation at such volumes. 🌫️

Google Workspace Integration: This was the "gamechanger" ⚡. Gemini 3 lives in my emails, sheets, and documents. When I ask it to prepare a report from the latest client meetings, it doesn't ask me for details—it simply searches my Drive and Gmail, connecting the dots in a way that saves me hours of work. 📁✅

Agentic Workflows: AI that acts, doesn’t just talk 🤖🛠️

The biggest difference I felt after switching is the approach to tasks. While ChatGPT focuses on generating text, Gemini 3 Pro increasingly acts like an Agent. Thanks to new automation features in the Google ecosystem, it can not only write code but immediately test it in a development environment or update a calendar and spreadsheet simultaneously. ⚙️

Interestingly, Gemini 3 has become more "human" in its interactions. Thanks to Gemini Live, talking to it feels like a real dialogue where I can interrupt, change my mind, or ask for clarification, and it never loses the thread. 🗣️💬

The New Favorite 🌟

Today, as I write these words, I no longer feel sadness over losing my OpenAI account. I feel relief. Sometimes we need a shock to realize we’re stuck in a habit that limits us. Gemini 3 Pro has become my new daily partner. It’s more versatile, better integrated into my life, and—crucially for me—provides a sense of stability within the massive Google ecosystem. 🌐

If you’re still using ChatGPT just out of habit, be careful. One email from support can wipe out your work. I already know that in the world of AI, sentiments can be costly, and the future belongs to those who can adapt. 🦾💡