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Re:Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash by kristofferc on Friday November 06, 2026 @09:59AM (#50393130)
I wanted to pay them money to try their things. I just literally couldn't figure out how to do it. I think I then managed to get some trial credits but I never managed to activate anything with them and hit API limit after basically one prompt.
Re:Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash by btown on Friday November 06, 2026 @10:21AM (#50393415)
Our team figured out the only stable way to do this was to either use OpenRouter for API, or for subscriptions, to get Ultra Gemini accounts on personal Gmail accounts (no way to do this for individual members of an org without upgrading the entire org!) and hook those to the Antigravity CLI which Claude Code can then orchestrate for second opinions.

Which are amazing! Argon’s insights on code review and copywriting are phenomenal, and make these hoops well worth it! But geez, it’s horrifying that we had to figure this out!

Re:Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash by theturtletalks on Friday November 06, 2026 @11:28AM (#50394529)
Are you sure about Argon? My experience has been it seems to understand code but it completely destroyed a couple of projects I was working on. Others like Theo used it to work on T3 Code and said it benchmaxxed and was atrocious.
Re:Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash by btown on Friday November 06, 2026 @12:22PM (#50395333)
We use it primarily in the context of a code reviewer, and it occasionally finds subtle security/workflow/backwards-compat issues that Claude and GPT do not. Claude makes final judgments on whether the findings are material and how they should be fixed.

Argon also tends to write particularly warm copy and external messages - unsurprising with Google's particular access to email data and caches of writing from the early internet.

We haven't really used it to write code from scratch - generally, we're wary of these exact things, and feel like Claude continues to have good enough architectural instincts that we've doubled down into the Claude ecosystem, with mods and tooling (including a multi-agent reviewer) that accelerate our workflows.

Re:Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash by tempest_ on Friday November 06, 2026 @10:24AM (#50393464)
A year ago I was trying their enterprise code offering and for the life of me I could not get it let me use a gemini 3+ model. I enabled everything in like 5 different interfaces and the GeminiCLI and UIs would only show me 2.5.

Eventually I gave up. Anthropic/OpenAI took < 10 minutes to get things going.

Re:Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash by Topfi on Friday November 06, 2026 @12:50PM (#50395720)
Slightly off topic, but I feel like pointing out that this is not limited to their recent/model offerings. I recently had to once again enable both Sign in with Apple and Google, yet despite having done so at least three times throughout my life (Auth0 back in the day, BetterAuth last year, now WorkOS AuthKit) and having access to modern models, it was an exercise in frustration, outdated official documentation and permissions errors that were beyond inconsistent, at least on the GCP side.

Enabling the same service via Apple Developers meanwhile took me minutes and I never felt lost, confused or frustrated.

Re:Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash by inemesitaffia on Friday November 06, 2026 @03:24PM (#50397950)
Azure did this.
Re:Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash by disgruntledphd2 on Saturday November 07, 2026 @09:09AM (#50404675)
Those devs were clearly a lot smarter than me, then.

They do return their services if you search for the name of some AWS services, which is helpful.

Re:Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash by totetsu on Friday November 06, 2026 @10:37AM (#50393647)
Me too! I wanted to just make an api call to get my current spend on google models.. and like 50 steps of creating this and that and linking it to here and then giving it this and that permissions, and being told this isn't acruall real time, you've just set up a query to be run against your data into this new data lake, and come back and check tomorrow.. I still couldn't get anything to work..
Re:Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash by swaptr on Friday November 06, 2026 @10:43AM (#50393733)
I paid for their AI models on the app because I wanted to try the Gemini experience on my device but its utterly incohesive, I just cant use my subscription anywhere else. Anthropic is close but at least they started offering API credits recently so my workflows dont break, but with google man.... its a horrible experience. Won't renew, thats for sure.
Re:Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash by reenter7286 on Friday November 06, 2026 @03:05PM (#50397657)
skill issue