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Gemini 3.1 Pro: An Indie Developer's Honest Review After 3 Months of Daily Use
A genuine assessment of Gemini 3.1 Pro from someone who uses it daily: what improved over 2.5 Pro, 15 tasks where it excels, 5 where it falls short, and how to split work with Claude Opus 4.6.
Gemma 4 × OpenCode: Build a Free Local AI Coding Environment in 10 Minutes
Combine Google's open Gemma 4 model with the OpenCode terminal agent and you get a fully local, zero-cost AI coding environment ready in 10 minutes. Here's the setup and an honest take on the experience.
Putting Gemini 2.5 Flash Thinking Mode to Work: Reading the Cost-Accuracy-Speed Tradeoff
After three months of testing Gemini 2.5 Flash's Thinking Mode on real projects, here's what actually works: which tasks benefit, which tasks waste budget, and how to build a cost-aware switching layer.
Two Weeks Until Google I/O 2026: What Gemini API Developers Should Prepare Right Now
With Google I/O 2026 just around the corner, here's what developers running Gemini API in production should do this week — from pinning model versions and recording baselines to tracking deprecation timelines before the announcements hit.
Gemini 3 Deep Think Not Working as Expected: 5 Common Issues and Fixes
Troubleshoot Gemini 3 Deep Think mode issues systematically. From API misconfiguration and timeouts to unexpected costs and missing thought summaries — 5 real-world problems with working code fixes.
When Gemini API Output Seems Wrong: 7 Common Causes and a Diagnostic Checklist
When Gemini API returns unexpected output — empty responses, wrong language, broken JSON, or Thinking content leaking into answers — here are 7 common causes with a practical diagnostic checklist and code examples.
5 Gemini API Python Errors and How to Fix Them
A practical guide to the five errors Python developers hit most often when working with the Gemini API—authentication failures, rate limits, response parsing, timeouts, and invalid arguments—with working fixes for each.
Weekly Picks: Top 5 Must-Read Articles on Gemini Lab (Apr 29 – May 5)
Gemini Lab's top 5 articles for Apr 29 – May 5. Covering Gemini 2.5 Flash, API cost reduction to 80%, RAG pattern comparison, Live API voice integration, and Gemma 4 local setup.
Cutting Gemini API Costs by 80%: Context Caching and Implicit Caching
A hands-on guide to reducing Gemini API costs by 80% using Context Caching and Implicit Caching. Includes decision frameworks, working code examples, and a troubleshooting checklist for when caching stops working in production.
Gemini 3.x Prompt Engineering Complete Masterclass — System Instructions, Few-shot, CoT, ReAct & Self-Evaluation Loops with Working Code
A deep-dive masterclass on prompt engineering optimized for Gemini 3.x models. Learn System Instructions design, Few-shot selection strategies, CoT + Thinking Budget integration, ReAct patterns, and Critic-Refiner loops — all with production-ready Python code and before/after comparisons.
Gemini Side Panel Missing in Gmail, Docs, and Sheets: A Fix Checklist
When the Gemini side panel disappears from Gmail, Docs, or Sheets, the cause usually falls into one of four buckets. Here is a seven-step checklist that will surface the real culprit on most accounts.
"Gemini Feels Worse Than Before" — How to Actually Diagnose the Problem
If Gemini's responses seem to have declined in quality, the cause is usually fixable — and often isn't Gemini's fault. A practical guide to diagnosing and resolving perceived quality drops.