What should we expect as far as outages go as Ultra subscribers? I posted this in a new thread today after AG told me I was locked out for 48 hours. Below is the reply I made to that thread.
I can’t believe the team at Google did this. It was one thing having to deal with 5 hour lockouts (I usually ended up with 60 minutes or so of inturuption which I could just switch to a lessor model for a short time)
The new quota/usage lock makes the Ultra tier completely unusable for development workflows. A multi-day lockout on a paid premium account is unacceptable and is forcing me to strongly consider canceling my subscription and switch back to Cursor immediately. At this point the value proposition is better with Cursor.
I am also considering the pro/con of switching back to using our internal LLM we have running in the office.
It is not our fault that the entire AI vertical is stuck on step 2 of the Underpants Gnomes problem.
As far as loops go? Why not stop seeing the LLM agents with prompts that create these loops? I can’t count the number of times I have had to stop an agent in Antigravity from running builds over and over again. Or the number of sessions where every message I sent resulted in the LLM doing the exact same Grep before moving forward. “Do A, Grep, Great job now do B, Same Grep, Hey you missed this on this page and at this line, Same Grep from step one”
Having been a Google User since Gmail was invite only. I find the current state of affairs very disapointing. Your post above reads like a laundry list of “Developers this is your fault,” “Hey look over here because if you look at my hands you will see the trick in the magic,” “Oh you developers and your endless loops, its your fault,”
The truth is you nailed Step 1, want Step 3, and never figured out Step 2: how to make profit. Instead of blaming us developers, giving us less value for the dollar, creating systems that mask AI usage, and automate AI spending, HOW ABOUT JUST MAKING A BETTER LLM that developers actualy want to use. Gemini is barely passing today. It is a fallback model when you pay gate the others, and at 200 dollars per month, why am I not just going straight to the source and pumping the OPUS right into my IDE? My answer: because I believed in Google.
