Revert "Reduce noisy Gemini batch failure warnings"

This reverts commit 6faff4d269.

backend/services/gemini.go

@@ -306,7 +306,6 @@ User query: ` + query,
 		},
 		"generationConfig": map[string]any{
 			"responseMimeType": "application/json",
-			"maxOutputTokens":  1400,
 		},
 	}
 

backend/services/gemini_test.go

@@ -213,18 +213,3 @@ func TestMergeRecommendationsExcludesIrrelevantAndPendingFiller(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("unexpected merged result: %#v", merged)
 	}
 }
-
-func TestFilterHardGeminiErrorsIgnoresLowValueVisualFailures(t *testing.T) {
-	errs := []string{
-		"candidate thumbnail is low value",
-		"no candidate thumbnails or preview frames could be fetched for gemini vision",
-		"gemini vision JSON extraction failed: no complete JSON object found",
-	}
-	filtered := filterHardGeminiErrors(errs)
-	if len(filtered) != 1 {
-		t.Fatalf("expected only hard errors to remain, got %#v", filtered)
-	}
-	if !strings.Contains(filtered[0], "JSON extraction failed") {
-		t.Fatalf("unexpected filtered errors: %#v", filtered)
-	}
-}

backend/services/ranker.go

@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ func EvaluateAllCandidatesWithGemini(service *GeminiService, query string, ranke
 }
 
 func EvaluateAllCandidatesWithGeminiWithDeadline(service *GeminiService, query string, ranked []SearchResult, deadline time.Time) ([]AIRecommendation, GeminiBatchStats, error) {
-	const chunkSize = 6
+	const chunkSize = 8
 	const maxConcurrentBatches = 2
 	if service == nil {
 		return nil, GeminiBatchStats{}, fmt.Errorf("gemini service is not configured")
@@ -187,7 +187,6 @@ func EvaluateAllCandidatesWithGeminiWithDeadline(service *GeminiService, query s
 				})
 			}
 			recovered, recoveredErrs := recoverGeminiBatchSequentially(service, query, ranked, batch.index*chunkSize)
-			hardErrs := filterHardGeminiErrors(recoveredErrs)
 			if len(recovered) > 0 {
 				stats.SequentialRetried++
 				stats.Succeeded++
@@ -198,9 +197,9 @@ func EvaluateAllCandidatesWithGeminiWithDeadline(service *GeminiService, query s
 					seen[item.Link] = true
 					merged = append(merged, item)
 				}
-				if len(hardErrs) > 0 {
+				if len(recoveredErrs) > 0 {
 					stats.Failed++
-					for _, recoveredErr := range hardErrs {
+					for _, recoveredErr := range recoveredErrs {
 						if len(stats.Errors) < 5 {
 							stats.Errors = append(stats.Errors, recoveredErr)
 						}
@@ -208,9 +207,6 @@ func EvaluateAllCandidatesWithGeminiWithDeadline(service *GeminiService, query s
 				}
 				continue
 			}
-			if len(hardErrs) == 0 {
-				continue
-			}
 			stats.Failed++
 			if len(stats.Errors) < 5 {
 				stats.Errors = append(stats.Errors, batch.err.Error())
@@ -333,35 +329,6 @@ func MergeUniqueRecommendations(base, extra []AIRecommendation) []AIRecommendati
 	return merged
 }
 
-func filterHardGeminiErrors(errs []string) []string {
-	filtered := make([]string, 0, len(errs))
-	for _, item := range errs {
-		if isIgnorableGeminiError(item) {
-			continue
-		}
-		filtered = append(filtered, item)
-	}
-	return filtered
-}
-
-func isIgnorableGeminiError(message string) bool {
-	lower := strings.ToLower(strings.TrimSpace(message))
-	if lower == "" {
-		return false
-	}
-	for _, token := range []string{
-		"no candidate thumbnails or preview frames could be fetched for gemini vision",
-		"candidate thumbnail is low value",
-		"candidate has no thumbnail or preview video",
-		"image url is empty",
-	} {
-		if strings.Contains(lower, token) {
-			return true
-		}
-	}
-	return false
-}
-
 func MergeGeminiBatchStats(base, extra GeminiBatchStats) GeminiBatchStats {
 	merged := base
 	merged.CandidateCap += extra.CandidateCap