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Google APIs in general are hilariously hard to adopt. With any other service on the planet, you go to a platform page, grab an api key and you’re good to go.

Want to use Google’s gmail, maps, calendar or gemini api? Create a cloud account, create an app, enable the gmail service, create an oauth app, download a json file. Cmon now…

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Don't forget the tradition of having to migrate to a new API after a while because this one gets deprecated for "reasons". Not just a newer version, but a complete non backwards compatible new API that also requires its own setup.

To be fair, that might have changed in recent years. But after having to deal with that a few times for a few hobby projects I simply stopped trying. Can't imagine how it is for companies making use of these APIs. I guess it provides work for teams on otherwise stable applications...

Yeah, I'm not a dev and not using AI at all but had a need to create oauth keys and some APIs for some project... sometimes it works sometimes it doesnt and it's so complicated...but got it working in the end, thos it stops working after some time, it was like, Google, really?

I know not accessible across all API's, but the point of AI Studio is you can sign up and we just make an API key for you automagically, no extra button clicks or the like.

When I wake up in cold sweat in the middle of the night, it's because I interacted with yhr Google cloud management UI before I went to sleep.

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