[byefruit]

And even when it does copy other products, it seems to be doing a terrible job of them.

Google's AI offering is a complete nightmare to use. Three different APIs, at least two different subscriptions, documentation that uses them interchangeably.

For Gemini's API it's often much simpler to actually pay OpenRouter the 5% surchargeto BYOK than deal with it all.

I still can't use my Google AI Pro account with gemini-cli..

[gardnr]

Then there's the billing dashboards...

It's amazing how they can show useless data while completely obfuscating what matters.

[ur-whale]

Yeah, the whole billing death march is what ended up making me pick OpenAI as my main worhorse instead of GOOG.

Not enough brain cycles to figure out a way to give Google money, whereas the OpenAI subscription was basically a no-brainer.

[cshores]

As of this week you can use gemini-cli with Google AI Pro

[specproc]

I had great fun this week with the batch API. A good morning lost trying to work out how to do a not particularly complex batch request via JSONL.

The python library is not well documented, and has some pretty basic issues that need looking at. Terrible, unhelpful errors, and "oh, so this works if I put it in camel-case" sort of stuff.

[leobg]

litellm + gemini API key?

I find Gemini is their first API that works like that. Not like their pre-Gemini vision, speech recognition, sheets etc.. Those were/are a nightmare to set up indeed.