Community members can contribute to the cookbook

Gemini API Documentation
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So this is a cool little perk that I’ve noticed so far:

Developers and members of this community have the ability to contribute to Gemini’s cookbook if they so choose.

As with all companies, Google can still accept or reject a contribution, and they do have guidelines for contributing.

However, this is still a pretty big deal, because this means that if we as a community notice anything in demand but lacking in examples, we now have the right to take initiative and submit those examples ourselves directly.

I’m already noticing very subtle yet powerful adjustments that makes it easier for everyone involved to be proactive and engage in ways that benefit everyone with less friction.

I’m liking what I’m seeing so far.

The contribution guidelines can be found here:

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I’m having ideas here… Lots of ideas :laughing:

Kinda sad that the non-technical writing style guide is locked behind a paywall (it’s a 70$ book), but you may be able to seek guidance from the raven holding a red key.

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This appears to be corpo-speak for Chicago-style citations.

Of which, there’s a cornucopia of free info on that :rofl:

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If you were confused like me, I finally found it, it is here: Subscription Options

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That is the most confusing pricing page I’ve seen in a long time :rofl:

I mean they offer a free 30 day trial for what is basically a downloadable PDF :rofl:

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Getting used to this new ecosystem is gonna be so much fun :laughing:

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Yeah, and a lot of these can be contributions to the cookbooks, google has a bunch of different cloud API’s you can integrate with, and most of them have a pretty generous “free tier”

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Well I, for one, am wondering (especially considering the recent reorg) about their IoT API ecosystems and how those are going to integrate here :thinking:.

This might actually ease some of the burdens when it comes to IoT integration. That is what really excites me.

Hell this may be an opportunity for us devs to actually help declutter their IoT ecosystem with custom-built Gemini tools!

Ideas are brewing already!

I think this has been the luckiest and most serendipitous week I’ve had in quite a while. I think it’s starting to hit me about just how big Google’s toolbox is

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I personally have a integration running that allows the Google Assistant on my phone to interact with my home though home assistant and it’s okay for turning lights on and off, and other normal tasks, but it doesn’t handle complicated instructions particularly well.

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Which, ironically, is what originally inspired my startup project. That exact problem. I really wanted to see if I could build something to lessen the friction, but google’s APIs can be ungodly intimidating, and Amazon’s was 1000x worse.

I got no excuse anymore though! :woman_shrugging:

This actually works out quite well, because my startup is still something different and independent of all this, but now I might actually still get to fix this original problem I wanted to fix.

We’ll see though of course.

Before I get too excited I need to sit down and focus on what I want to conjure up for the hackathon :rofl:. Unless I’m missing it somewhere, there does not appear to be a gemini client in Rust yet :thinking:. OpenAI’s was also community built (not by me though)…

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