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It would be fun if Google lost its months of edge in the LLM value race because it alienated early adopters paying $250/month by using a 0-strike system with no

• sva_ 8mo ago
  Honestly, I think it was probably a few users abusing the system like crazy. I've been building with Gemini CLI the past few days and had an increasing amount of issues getting a request through. The GH issue trackers were full of people bitching and moaning about it. I think it might be a worse thing to alienate your users who use your product in the intended way - through Google's tooling. But I agree the 0 strike rule seems really excessive. It is also a possible scenario that a single individual sets up 10+ AI Pro subscriptions to blast through tokens like crazy - not sure how the economics of the daily allowances compare to the API pricing here.
  • lelanthran 8mo ago
    > Honestly, I think it was probably a few users abusing the system like crazy. It's not unusual that 10% of users use up 80% of the capacity; first saw this when home internet started getting ubiquitous. By dropping the problematic 10%, the remaining 90% are: a. Much happier, and b. Much more profitable for the provider. Resulting in a sustainable service for those who don't abuse the hell out o the ToS/FUP.