Record what you send before you try to measure whether temperature still works
Deprecated sampling parameters still return 200 and are silently ignored. Here is how a runtime recorder caught the call sites grep and AST both missed, kept the construction site attached to each config, and turned the ledger into a CI gate.
Catching only the deprecations that touch you — feeding the official changelog to url-context
I found out an image model was being shut down three days before the deadline. Here is a deprecation radar that reads the official changelog through url-context and surfaces only the models I actually use, with working Python and the over-alerting tuning I had to do in production.
Before the August 17 Gemini Image Model Shutdown: Inventory Where You Actually Call Them First
Some Gemini image generation models retire on August 17. Before choosing a replacement, here is how to inventory which models are actually being called, and from where, using your request logs.
The Morning a Preview Image Model Went Dark — Migrating to GA Gemini Image Models and Building a Deprecation-Resilient Pipeline
With gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview and gemini-3-pro-image-preview retired, here is how to migrate to the GA models and design an image pipeline that no longer gets caught off guard by deprecation dates — with code and cost math, plus video-to-image thumbnail automation.
How to Handle Gemini API Model Deprecation and Migration Errors
A practical guide to migrating from deprecated Gemini API models and resolving common migration errors.
Catching Deprecated Gemini Models in CI ― A Guard for Back-to-Back Shutdown Deadlines
When shutdowns and deprecations pile up, build a CI check that mechanically finds stale Gemini model strings across your repo. Includes a deprecation registry, a scanner, and a days-remaining warn/fail tier you can copy and run.
Gemini's Preview Image Models Shut Down on June 25 — Code Diffs and Checks From an Actual GA Migration
How I moved my image pipeline off Gemini's preview image models before the June 25 shutdown — confirming GA model IDs, Python code diffs, regression checks, and a safe cutover order.
Designing Around the Gemini 2.0 Flash Deprecation Without Letting It Disrupt Indie Development: My May 2026 Risk-Distribution Notes
How I rebuilt my indie-development jobs to absorb the Gemini 2.0 Flash deprecation: a provider abstraction, a nightly old-vs-new diff batch, fallback-rate instrumentation, real cost numbers, and an August follow-up on what the migration actually cost.