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Gemini last models: temperature, top_p, and top_k are deprecated and ignored

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Google's latest Gemini models completely ignore and deprecate the `temperature`, `top_p`, and `top_k` API parameters, stripping production pipelines of manual control over output randomness. This immediately breaks any hardcoded configurations designed to force determinism—such as setting temperature to zero for reliably parsing structured schemas or tool-calling. You must immediately shift your reliability strategies from API-level sampling tweaks to runtime schema enforcement and rigorous defensive prompting to prevent unpredictable output variance in production.

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