My Thoughts on AI the Week of May 25
The AI product climate this week was weirdly clarifying. I am still not ready to move my development workflow back to Gemini after the rate-limit frustration, but I also have to admit that Google shipped a few things that made me pay attention again. At the same time, OpenAI reminded me that even the best developer tooling can feel unnecessarily confusing when the billing model sprawls across too many surfaces. Then OpenRouter raised a serious round of funding and made the case for a future where developers do not have to bet everything on one model vendor. That is the pattern I keep coming back to: the tools are getting better, but the surrounding product experience still matters just as much as the model. Gemini Is Back in My General-Purpose Rotation I have complained plenty about Gemini rate limits. The stricter enforcement hit the wrong nerve for me because it made the product feel unpredictable at exactly the moment I wanted to rely on it more. Once a tool makes me ration my ...