I am in a vicious cycle with Gemini models. 1206 exp was a top model but the rate limits and the other free status limitations made it unusable in aider. so I don’t use Gemini models for coding. My tests showed this week that 2.5 Pro should be at the top of my list of models to use in aider, but it is also unusable in aider due to rate and request limits. I don’t use that many tokens but I make several dozen or more requests per day.
I went to a place in the portal somewhere where I requested increases to these limits but no way to find my way back there, the google AI web portal is very very convoluted.
I love the Gemini models but the whole UX is not seemingly setup to actually be used. Developers Developers Developers is what I would say if it were 1996.