[Rant] Google: Making Users Do Engineers' Work

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Want to use an AI API? Here’s the difference:

OpenAI / DeepSeek:

1. Generate an API key 2. Install OpenAI client 3. Add your key 4. Make API calls

Google Gemini:

1. Learn IAM (roles, permissions, service accounts...) 2. Grant access 3. Download key file / authenticate via CLI 4. Figure out which region supports your model (because not all models are available everywhere) 5. Hope you picked the right setup—otherwise, try again!

I genuinely believe that if Google cared just 1% more about its users, the end impact would be enormous

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