I’ve used it. The API is incredibly buggy and flakey. A particular pain point is the “recitation error” fiasco. If you’re developing a real world app this basic

I’ve used it. The API is incredibly buggy and flakey. A particular pain point is the “recitation error” fiasco. If you’re developing a real world app this basically makes the Gemini api unusable. It strikes me as a kind of “Potemkin” service. Google is aware of the issue and it has been open on google's bug tracker since March 2024: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/331677495 https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/331677495 There is also discussion on GitHub: https://github.com/google-gemini/generative-ai-js/issues/138 https://github.com/google-gemini/generative-ai-js/issues/138 It stems from something google added intentionally to prevent copyright material being returned verbatim (ala the NYT openai fiasco), so they dialled up the "recitation" control (the act of repeating training data—and maybe data they should not have legally trained on). Here are some quotes from the bug tracker page: > I got this error by just asking "Who is Google?" > We're encountering recitation errors even with basic tutorials on application development. When bootstrapping a Spring Boot app, we're flagged for the pom.xml being too similar to some blog posts. > This error is a deal breaker... It occurs hundreds of times a day for our users and massively degrades their UX.