Comment by Aissen
1 day ago
It would be fun if Google lost its months of edge in the LLM value race because it alienated early adopters paying $250/month by using a 0-strike system with no customer support.
1 day ago
It would be fun if Google lost its months of edge in the LLM value race because it alienated early adopters paying $250/month by using a 0-strike system with no customer support.
Honestly, I think it was probably a few users abusing the system like crazy. I've been building with Gemini CLI the past few days and had an increasing amount of issues getting a request through.
The GH issue trackers were full of people bitching and moaning about it. I think it might be a worse thing to alienate your users who use your product in the intended way - through Google's tooling.
But I agree the 0 strike rule seems really excessive.
It is also a possible scenario that a single individual sets up 10+ AI Pro subscriptions to blast through tokens like crazy - not sure how the economics of the daily allowances compare to the API pricing here.
> Honestly, I think it was probably a few users abusing the system like crazy.
It's not unusual that 10% of users use up 80% of the capacity; first saw this when home internet started getting ubiquitous.
By dropping the problematic 10%, the remaining 90% are:
a. Much happier, and
b. Much more profitable for the provider.
Resulting in a sustainable service for those who don't abuse the hell out o the ToS/FUP.