It always is for the first week. Then you find out that the last 10% matter a lot more than than the other 90%. And finally they turn off the high compute version and you're left with a brain dead model that loses to a 32b local model half the time.
If a user eventually creates half a dozen projects with an API key for each, and prompts Gemini side-by-side under each key, and only some of the responses are consistently terrible…
Would you expect that to be Google employing cost-saving measures?
