Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration
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Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration
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Re: Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration
#2I didn't even need to read the article to upvote, and doing so just confirmed my assumption that somebody finally wrote down their frustration with Gemini.
My fucking god, how has Google not flagged the failure of onboarding devs like Claude / Codex?
3 days ago I was literally thinking, I want to throw 20$ to try out Gemini alongside my Claude and Codex subs.
It took me a few minutes to realize its just not worth my time to figure out how.
Re: Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration
#3Just wait until you find out that Tier 1 only gives you up to 250 requests a day, and if you want more than that you'll have had to have spent over $250 in Google Cloud spend, and your first payment has to be more than 30 days ago. I was going to build my side project using Gemini 3 Pro, but gave up after that.
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#5This reminds me of the ”I just want to serve 5 terabytes” thing
Google does not want your money, they don’t know how to count so low
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#6I think they're just too focused on enterprise billing. Someone at google doesn't get that individuals trying it out is how they go their work and recommend this stuff.
Googlers tend to exist in an isolated bubble. In the corporate world, Azure is the default and they have Azure OpenAI. Why would someone bother with Gemini? Unless the devs at companies have a good experience with it of course.
Googlers are awesome/mean well, if only enough of them lurked here :)
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#7Yeah can't figure out WTH is going on in google's AI ecosystem either.
They absolutely deserve credit for their free tier API keys though. That's unheard of in big cloud - an actual you can't shoot yourself in the foot with a life ruining bill thing. Can't recall what part of their product maze I got it from but it seems to do what it says on tin
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#8Yeah, then try adding more quotas to scale your usage; you will feel the pain!
But, to be fair, it is way easier than the AWS Bedrock or Microsoft Azure!
Re: Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration
#9This reminds me of the ”I just want to serve 5 terabytes” thing Google does not want your money, they don’t know how to count so low
Broccoli Man! classic
https://youtu.be/3t6L-FlfeaI (2010)
To be fair, a lot of this changed after that video became a meme.. but I'd bet that the broccoli man template is still trending on memegen
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#10I had to warm up a Gemini API project worth a few thousand hours during weeks so that I could get to the tier that allowed me to carry out the workload.
How can you have any tokens if you haven’t finished your tokens?!