Googles AI stuff and tiers are probably the most confusing ever because it feels like they rename it all the time. If you subscribe by the time you pay, it has a different name again and the documentation and blogs are all over the place they basically now call everything Google One. It's like all the appliance manufacturers where every store has a different id for the same machine.
Gemini Code Assist will be shut down on July 17
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Re: Gemini Code Assist will be shut down on July 17
#32I think the title is wrong, it's "Gemini Code Assist on GitHub" for non-enterprise users that is being shut down. Not "Gemini Code Assist". Yes their naming scheme is absurd
Hah, is Google now just as bad at naming things as Microsoft?
Re: Gemini Code Assist will be shut down on July 17
#33Highly recommend exerting the extra effort it takes to remain portable with your AI workflow. Not just to workaround typical Google shut downs, but also the incoming price hikes.
All I use is the web app/chat features for development, so I feel like my bases are covered.
Re: Gemini Code Assist will be shut down on July 17
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is not a theory of market competition that I've heard before.
It’s also an usual use of the term arbitrage
you will not want 20 different accounts at 20 providers, you'll have one at a "token arbitrage" provider - OpenRouter
drop-shipping is a form of arbitrage
Re: Gemini Code Assist will be shut down on July 17
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
the more portable everyone is, the more arbitrage will happen - cheap providers will raise prices too because users will flow to them
This is not a theory of market competition that I've heard before.
basic supply/demand
demand moves to cheaper providers, they ran out of capacity and increase price
literally why "commodities" are "commodities" - the more interchangeable a product is the more exposed it is to supply/demand mechanics
Re: Gemini Code Assist will be shut down on July 17
#36I think the title is wrong, it's "Gemini Code Assist on GitHub" for non-enterprise users that is being shut down. Not "Gemini Code Assist". Yes their naming scheme is absurd
Hah, is Google now just as bad at naming things as Microsoft?
Not quite, I don't see a "Special edition, with offers, without teams" branding on the end of it.
Re: Gemini Code Assist will be shut down on July 17
#37Googles AI stuff and tiers are probably the most confusing ever because it feels like they rename it all the time. If you subscribe by the time you pay, it has a different name again and the documentation and blogs are all over the place they basically now call everything Google One. It's like all the appliance manufacturers where every store has a different id for the same machine.
The other problem is the pricing includes a bunch of other Google crap I have zero interest in. They're doing the same mistake Microsoft is doing. People like me want only the coding subscription, not everything else that's shoved into it. When I buy into Claude, I am into it for Claude Code, if I cared to give Scam Altman any money it would be for Codex.
Re: Gemini Code Assist will be shut down on July 17
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
A while back I evaluated using Google's AI products for my company and this is barely the tip of the iceberg when it comes to confusing naming. I left so confused after a few days that I decided there was no way I could inflict that on anyone else in the company. I think the were some good ideas in there but I couldn't tell you which of the ~40 (at least) similarly named products those were.
I did wind up choosing GCP to be our primary enterprise AI provider and it has definitely been a challenge to try and explain the difference between Vertex AI Studio, Gemini Enterprise, and Gemini Enterprise Code Assist, to say nothing of trying to explain that these three products are not the same thing as the consumer version of Gemini that they can find when they google “Gemini AI”. The branding is godawful.
This appears to be a commonality across software companies as Microsoft appear to do the same thing.
Is it that the marketing is bad or is there some weird reason that this all makes sense?
Re: Gemini Code Assist will be shut down on July 17
#39Googles AI stuff and tiers are probably the most confusing ever because it feels like they rename it all the time. If you subscribe by the time you pay, it has a different name again and the documentation and blogs are all over the place they basically now call everything Google One. It's like all the appliance manufacturers where every store has a different id for the same machine.
The other problem is the pricing includes a bunch of other Google crap I have zero interest in. They're doing the same mistake Microsoft is doing. People like me want only the coding subscription, not everything else that's shoved into it. When I buy into Claude, I am into it for Claude Code, if I cared to give Scam Altman any money it would be for Codex.
name calling detracts from your credibility instead of supporting your point
Re: Gemini Code Assist will be shut down on July 17
#40I think the title is wrong, it's "Gemini Code Assist on GitHub" for non-enterprise users that is being shut down. Not "Gemini Code Assist". Yes their naming scheme is absurd
I'm forever shocked at how marketing illiterate this huge multi-billion $ conglomerate is. I guess when you're Google you don't need to be.