That's funny. Yesterday I was having trouble getting gemini 2.0 flash to obey function calling rules in multiturn conversations. I asked o3 for advise and it suggested that I should threaten it with termination should it fail to follow instructions, and that weaker models tend to take these threats seriously, which made me laugh. Of course, it didn't help.

Yesterday I threatened Gemini 2.5 I would replace it with Claude if it didn’t focus on the root of the problem and it immediately realigned its thinking and solved the issue at hand.