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My tip: Move away from Google to an LLM that doesn't respond with "There was a problem getting a response" 90% of the time.

knollimar 10mo ago
Are we getting billed for these? The billing is so very not transparent.
- mhitza 10mo ago
  Would be nice to have an official confirmation. Once token get back to the user those are likely already counted. Sucks when the LLM goes on a rant only to stop because of hardcoded safeguards, or what I encounter often enough with Copilot: it generates some code, notices it's part of existing public code and cancels the entire response. But that still counts towards my usage.
- dingnuts 10mo ago
  [dead]
- OsrsNeedsf2P 10mo ago
  My experience working in FAANG.. Nobody knows
  - swyx 10mo ago
    we need a Nate Bargatze skit for these quips
- qingcharles 10mo ago
  Copilot definitely bills you for all the errors.
  - lupire 10mo ago
    Gemini appears to bill random amounts for reasons nobody knows.
tarruda 10mo ago
I had a terrible first impression with Gemini CLI a few months ago when it was released because of the constant 409 errors. With Gemini 3 release I decided to give it another go, and now the error changed to: "You've reached the daily limit with this model", even though I have an API key with billing set up. It wouldn't let me even try Gemini 3 and even after switching to Gemini 2.5 it would still throw this error after a few messages. Google might have the best LLMs, but its agentic coding experience leaves a lot to be desired.
- knollimar 10mo ago
  I had to make a new API key. My old one got stuck with this error; it's on Google's end. New key resolved immediately.
  - franze 10mo ago
    and then loosing half a day setting up billing - with a limited virtual credit card so you have at least some cost control
    - knollimar 10mo ago
      For me, I had just set up a project and set billing to that. Making a second key and assigning the billing to that was instant; I got to reuse it. I have sympathy for any others who did not get so lucky

knollimar 10mo ago

Are we getting billed for these? The billing is so very not transparent.

mhitza 10mo ago
Would be nice to have an official confirmation. Once token get back to the user those are likely already counted. Sucks when the LLM goes on a rant only to stop because of hardcoded safeguards, or what I encounter often enough with Copilot: it generates some code, notices it's part of existing public code and cancels the entire response. But that still counts towards my usage.
dingnuts 10mo ago
[dead]
OsrsNeedsf2P 10mo ago
My experience working in FAANG.. Nobody knows
- swyx 10mo ago
  we need a Nate Bargatze skit for these quips
qingcharles 10mo ago
Copilot definitely bills you for all the errors.
- lupire 10mo ago
  Gemini appears to bill random amounts for reasons nobody knows.

tarruda 10mo ago

I had a terrible first impression with Gemini CLI a few months ago when it was released because of the constant 409 errors. With Gemini 3 release I decided to give it another go, and now the error changed to: "You've reached the daily limit with this model", even though I have an API key with billing set up. It wouldn't let me even try Gemini 3 and even after switching to Gemini 2.5 it would still throw this error after a few messages. Google might have the best LLMs, but its agentic coding experience leaves a lot to be desired.

knollimar 10mo ago
I had to make a new API key. My old one got stuck with this error; it's on Google's end. New key resolved immediately.
- franze 10mo ago
  and then loosing half a day setting up billing - with a limited virtual credit card so you have at least some cost control
  - knollimar 10mo ago
    For me, I had just set up a project and set billing to that. Making a second key and assigning the billing to that was instant; I got to reuse it. I have sympathy for any others who did not get so lucky