[yawnxyz]

I've to this day never been able to pay for Gemini through the API, even though I've tried maybe 6-7 times

If you bring it up to Logan he'll just brush it off — I honestly don't know if they test these UX flows with their own personal accounts, or if something is buggy with my account.

[pants2]

This is my experience as well in my personal account, however at work given we were already paying for Google Cloud it was easy enough to connect a GCP account.

But somehow personally even though I'm a paying Google One subscriber and have a GCP billing account with a credit card, I get confusing errors when trying to use the Gemini API

[altbdoor]

To Logan's credit though, his team made and drove a lot of good improvements in AI studio and Gemini in general since the early days.

I feel his team is really hitting a wall now in terms of improvements, because it involves Google teams/products outside of their control, or require deep collaboration.

[bobviolier]

https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/1978897746921693572?s=20

[TheTaytay]

Yes, I get the impression he has been fighting this fight internally since the day he arrived. He can’t exactly talk about how infuriating it must be, but I look forward to his memoir.