I've been pretty down on Google's LLMs over the years but the 2.5 preview has really impressed me and rapidly become my default. Really excited to try this "optimized for coding" variant:

I've been pretty down on Google's LLMs over the years but the 2.5 preview has really impressed me and rapidly become my default. Really excited to try this "optimized for coding" variant:
https://blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-2-5-pro-updates/

google really came back with gemini. Shame gemini integration into its products is still lacking.

And that's going to take some time to fix. Based on my involvement there 3 years back, they didn't have nearly enough datacenter capacity to "AI-enable" more than a small fraction of their massive traffic stream. We were all fighting for capacity even pre-ChatGPT, so I'm sure i'ts even worse now.