# Error: Sorry, I hit a snag. Please try again shortly or modify your prompt

**URL:** <https://community.firebasestudio.dev/t/error-sorry-i-hit-a-snag-please-try-again-shortly-or-modify-your-prompt/20124>\
**Category:** AI\
**Created:** [December 30, 2025, 1:39pm UTC](https://community.firebasestudio.dev/t/error-sorry-i-hit-a-snag-please-try-again-shortly-or-modify-your-prompt/20124 "2025-12-30T13:39:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![jamesor](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.firebasestudio.dev/jamesor/32/5600_2.png) [@jamesor](https://community.firebasestudio.dev/u/jamesor)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2026, 3:21pm UTC](https://community.firebasestudio.dev/t/error-sorry-i-hit-a-snag-please-try-again-shortly-or-modify-your-prompt/20124/5 "2026-01-27T15:21:10Z")

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Hi @Banda I’ve just posting something that might help here. Please give it a try and let me know if it helps.

> [@Gemini failing to respond or make edits? Try this](https://community.firebasestudio.dev/t/gemini-failing-to-respond-or-make-edits-try-this/20552):
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> We’ve been looking into an issue where some users experience an issue with Gemini either not responding to a prompt, or Gemini claims it makes an edit but doesn’t actually change the code. This has been hard to reproduce but we think we might have narrowed it down to cases where the source code file in question is long (~500 lines). A workaround to try is increasing the max tokens in the IDE settings config. If you don’t already have a folder called .vscode with a settings.json file in it, crea…

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