You’re prompting Gemini 3 wrong according to Google’s new user guide — here’s what to do instead

Last week, Google launched Gemini 3, the latest version of its AI that promises major advancements in reasoning, long-form problem solving and multimodal capabilities. In order to help people use the new model to the best of its abilities, the company also released a user guide, providing three simple rules to keep in mind when using Gemini 3 to optimize its output. While these won’t drastically change the outcome, they can simply make the AI tool that little bit better.

If you really want to learn in the ins and outs of using Gemini 3, there is also a more detailed Gemini 3 prompt guide available from Google. But if you want three quick-and-dirty rules when using Gemini 3, keep reading.

For a long time, we were told that the way to get the most out of AI — not just chatbots but image and video generators too — was to be overly detailed.