I am Don Quixote, building a app that abstracts over models (i.e. allows user choice), while providing them a user-controlled set of tools, and allowing users to write their own "scripts", i.e. precanned dialogue / response steps to permit ex. building of search.

Which is probably what makes me so cranky here. It's very hard keeping track of all of it and doing my best to lever up the models that are behind Claude's agentic capabilities, and all the Newspeak of Google PR makes it consume almost as much energy as the rest of the providers combined. (I'm v frustrated that I didn't realize till yesterday that 2.0 Flash had quietly gone from 10 RPM to 'you can actually use it')

I'm a Xoogler and I get why this happens ("preview" is a magic wand that means "you don't have to get everyone in bureaucracy across DeepMind/Cloud/? to agree to get this done and fill out their damn launchcal"), but, man.