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Well if you have even a smidgen of decision power, please tell somebody that Google's AI products are all over the place. They are confusing, we are bombarded w
by pdimitar 1y ago
Well if you have even a smidgen of decision power, please tell somebody that Google's AI products are all over the place. They are confusing, we are bombarded with information from all sides (I would not use the word "revolution" to describe what's been happening with AI + coding during 2025 but it's IMO not far from that) and everyone screaming for attention by spinning off newer and newer brands and sub-brands of tooling are _not_ helping.
I take no sides; not a fanboy. Only used free Claude and free Gemini Pro 2.5. But some months ago I scoffed at the expression "try it in Google AI Studio" -- that by itself is a branding / marketing failure.
Something like the existing https://ai.google https://ai.google website and with links to the different offerings indeed goes a LONG way. I like that website though it can be done better.
But anyway. Please tell somebody higher up that they are acting like 50 mini companies forced into a single big entity. Google should be better than that.
FWIW, I like Gemini Pro 2.5 best even though I had the free Claude run circles around it sometimes. It one-shot puzzling problems with minimal context multiple times while Gemini was still offering me ideas about how my computer might be malfunctioning if the thing it just hallucinated was not working. Still, most of the time it performs really great.
- ewoodrich 1y agoI still don’t really understand the criticism of AI Studio, it’s just the developer environment for trying out models with super low barrier to entry. Either with the web UI a la OpenAI Playground where you can see all the knobs and buttons the model offers, or by generating an API Key with a couple clicks that you can just copy paste into a Python script or whatever. It would be much less convenient if they abandoned it and forced you to work in the dense Google Cloud jungle with IAM etc for the sake of forced “simplicity” of offering models in one place.
- pdimitar 1y agoWell, to me "use AI studio" is just a pretentious thing to say, as if we are all expected to know they have "studio"... on the web. Can't quite put my finger on it but initially I was very put off by it. You do have a point about the dense Google Cloud jungle. I agree.
- lxgr 1y agoIt's just really yanky, even compared to other developer environments. Why is the backend Google Drive? Why do uploaded (and maybe generated?) images end up there, decoupled from the chats they originate from? What quotas am I accessing; those for my free API keys, others, or none at all?