[strongpigeon]

> Google essentially only has Preview models! The last GA is 2.5. As a developer, I can either use an outdated model or have zero insurances that the model doesn't get discontinued within weeks.

What's funny is that there is this common meme at Google: you can either use the old, unmaintained tool that's used everywhere, or the new beta tools that doesn't quite do what you want.

Not quite the same, but it did remind me of it.

[fhrow4484]

https://static0.anpoimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/...

[yieldcrv]

Preview Road (only choice, and last preview was deprecated without warning)

[hdjrudni]

If the last preview was 'deprecated', it's still usable. So you have two choices.

Peeve of mine when people say 'deprecated' but really they mean 'discontinued' or 'deleted'.

Things don't instantly disappear when they're deprecated.

[yieldcrv]

Take it up with the organizations that use deprecated and break things immediately

[goodmythical]

where's my nightly road?

Who knows, I might arrive before I depart.

[CactusBlue]

Reminds of Unity features

[tymscar]

I still remember the massive shift to SDRP and HDRP. Honestly, now in retrospect, almost a decade later, I think it was clearly done wrong. It was a mess, and switching over was a multi-week procedure for anything more than a hello world program, and what you got in return wasn’t something that looked better, just something that had the potential to.

Similar story with the whole networking stack. I haven’t used Unity in years now after it being my main work environment for years, but the sour taste it left in my mouth by moving everything that worked in the engine into plugins that barely worked will forever remain there.

Im sure its partly skill issue

[fireant]

Don't forget that some of the new features are mutually incompatible. For example couple years ago you couldn't use the "new ui system" with the "new input system" even when both were advertised as ready/almost ready

[peab]

such a great meme

[madeofpalk]

oh is this about my workplace?

[L-four]

Gmail was in beta for 5 years, until 2009.

[metalliqaz]

"Gemini, translate 'beta' from Googlespeak to English."

"Ok, here is the translation:"

    'we don't want to offer support'

[cyanydeez]

Nah, it's "We dont want to provide a consistent model that we'll be stuck with supporting for a decade because it just takes up space; until we run everyone out of business, we can't afford to have customers tying their systems to any given model"

Really, the economics makes no sense, but that's what they're doing. You can't have a consistent model because it'll pin their hardware & software, and that costs money.

[msikora]

I have a service that relies on NanoBanana Pro, but the availability has been so atrocious that we just might go back to OpenAI.

[solarkraft]

Just like any Google product then.

[kfse]

Until it had backup storage. Which ended up being useful in 2011 when tens of thousands of mailboxes were deleted due to a software bug and needed to be recovered from tape...

[jsemrau]

It was a different company back then. The Internet was still new-ish and not the multi-trillion dollar company it is now. I'd think expectations are different.

[cyanydeez]

The business models of LLMs don't include any garuntee, and some how that's fine for a burgeoning decade of trillions of dollars of consumption.

Sure, makes total sense guys.

[m_fayer]

My 5ish years in the mines of Android native back in the day are not years I recall fondly. Never change, Google.

[jakub_g]

"Everything is beta or deprecated."