Are we getting billed for these? The billing is so very not transparent.

My experience working in FAANG.. Nobody knows

we need a Nate Bargatze skit for these quips

Would be nice to have an official confirmation. Once token get back to the user those are likely already counted.

Sucks when the LLM goes on a rant only to stop because of hardcoded safeguards, or what I encounter often enough with Copilot: it generates some code, notices it's part of existing public code and cancels the entire response. But that still counts towards my usage.

Copilot definitely bills you for all the errors.

Gemini appears to bill random amounts for reasons nobody knows.

I had a terrible first impression with Gemini CLI a few months ago when it was released because of the constant 409 errors.

With Gemini 3 release I decided to give it another go, and now the error changed to: "You've reached the daily limit with this model", even though I have an API key with billing set up. It wouldn't let me even try Gemini 3 and even after switching to Gemini 2.5 it would still throw this error after a few messages.

Google might have the best LLMs, but its agentic coding experience leaves a lot to be desired.

I had to make a new API key. My old one got stuck with this error; it's on Google's end. New key resolved immediately.

and then loosing half a day setting up billing - with a limited virtual credit card so you have at least some cost control

For me, I had just set up a project and set billing to that. Making a second key and assigning the billing to that was instant; I got to reuse it.

I have sympathy for any others who did not get so lucky