Reading a 200-Page Contract with Gemini 2.5 Pro — Five Techniques That Move Long-Context Analysis to Production Quality
Using Gemini 2.5 Pro's long context for real business work takes more than stuffing the whole document in. Here are the five techniques I found most effective for contracts, meeting minutes, and technical specs.
When a Whole Chapter Vanished From My Long-PDF Summary — Field Notes on Auditing Coverage
Chapter-wise summarize-then-merge works well on long PDFs, but a lost extraction or a merge step can drop an entire chapter while the pipeline finishes without a single error. This walks through catching those silent drops with one number—coverage—and re-running only the chapters that fell out.
Common Gemini API Long Context Problems and How to Fix Them
Struggling with Gemini API's 1 million token context window? This guide covers the most common issues — ignored middle content, slow responses, unexpected costs, and unstable output — with practical code fixes.
Taking Gemini 2.5 Pro Seriously — Where Long-Context Reasoning and Code Generation Earn Their Keep
A solo developer's practical evaluation of Gemini 2.5 Pro across long-context reasoning, code generation, and the Thinking mode — including the tasks where it outperforms competitors and the ones where you're better off routing elsewhere.