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Ai Studio is terrible, Google's Ai products are subpar (save Deep Research), I blame Logan based on his social media posts and my in platform experience. They seem clueless over there with product.", "context": "", "use_case": "Model access via API", "switched_from": "", "story": "Gemini's 10 days of different outages and increasing high demand"}, {"id": 753873761, "item_id": 47117110, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47117110", "by": "edandersen", "date": "2026-02-22", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "just use those for direct Gemini/Vertex API access", "excerpt": "Google, unlike all their competitors, actually give Cloud API credits to all paying users of AI Pro and AI Ultra [1] - just use those for direct Gemini/Vertex API access instead of trying to hack the OAuth of Google's apps. [1] https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/gdp-premium-ai-pro-ultra/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw"}, {"id": 752738592, "item_id": 47046162, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47046162", "by": "verdverm", "date": "2026-02-17", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I pay by the token via VertexAi, better than those budget plans that rate limit you", "excerpt": "Claude at $20 / month? I hear it runs out pretty quick though tl;dr - you get what you pay for I pay by the token via VertexAi, better than those budget plans that rate limit you", "context": "", "use_case": "pay-per-token AI coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What is the best bang for buck budget AI coding?"}, {"id": 739616896, "item_id": 46226056, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46226056", "by": "BoorishBears", "date": "2025-12-10", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "the (theoretical) production platform for Gemini is Vertex AI, not AI Studio", "excerpt": "As the other comments pointed out, that's not covering billing... But also the (theoretical) production platform for Gemini is Vertex AI, not AI Studio. And until pretty recently using that took figuring out service accounts, and none of Google's docs would demonstrate production usage. Instead they'd use the gcloud CLI to authenticate, and you'd have to figure out how each SDK consumed a credentials file. - Now ther", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 798631810, "item_id": 49914488, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49914488", "by": "GodelNumbering", "date": "2026-09-30", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Add that to AI studio and Vertex's famously terrible caching", "excerpt": "Argon will launch at an introductory price [1] of $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, with cached input tokens priced at 95% off input token price. [1] After the introductory period expires, the price of $4 per 1M input tokens and $20 per 1M output tokens will apply. === So, they are basically offering opus 5.5 pricing. On AA, it scores around Sol 6.1 level (53) with avg cost per task $1.99", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Gemini 4 Argon"}, {"id": 794451937, "item_id": 49653246, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49653246", "by": "selvan", "date": "2026-09-11", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "default long-term memory uses vertext AI (gemini) in ADK.", "excerpt": "Libraries such as agent development kit (https://adk.dev/) provides abstraction over multiple LLM vendors, long-term memory (persistance + compaction) and allow us to manage subagents & their lifecycles. 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And per the rankings [0] 18.2% of the tokens sold through went to OpenAI [1]. 3.8% fo", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenRouter Is Joining Stripe"}, {"id": 783709698, "item_id": 48981856, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48981856", "by": "x313", "date": "2026-07-20", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Google Vertex is even worse.", "excerpt": "Similar story here. DS models are absurdly good value for mid-end tasks. I've found DSv4 Flash to be ~10% the cost of GPT-5.4-mini/Claude Haiku at similar performance. We used to pay OpenAI >1m$/month for fraud classification, NER, etc. Sadly the US companies no longer care about non-coding-agent uses. I imagine uptake will continue to increase as the corporate infra improves. Right now it's still bad - for example, ", "context": "", "use_case": "hosting models", "switched_from": "", "story": "American AI is locked down and proprietary. 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When we started using Claude at my work, it wasn't just with Anthropic-hosted instances of the service. As I understand it, we use a copy hosted on a GCP Vertex AI instance. It'd be weird if Anthropic ended up with our data. If Buckmaster & Alp\u00f6ge had some sort of agreement with OpenAI that their inputs wo", "context": "", "use_case": "hosting Claude privately", "switched_from": "", "story": "The obscure trust looming over Anthropic's IPO"}, {"id": 800972561, "item_id": 50060785, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50060785", "by": "povik", "date": "2026-10-12", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "being offered as providers with zero data retention", "excerpt": "> ChatGPT and Claude will never be private > These companies only offer closed versions of their powerful models (despite the word \"open\" in \"OpenAI\"). You pay them for chat and/or API access, and they are allowed to look at everything you do. How should I reconcile this claim with 'Google Vertex' and 'Amazon Bedrock' being offered as providers with zero data retention on https://openrouter.ai/anthropic/claude-opus-5", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Just say no to OpenAI and Anthropic"}, {"id": 798631810, "item_id": 49914488, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49914488", "by": "GodelNumbering", "date": "2026-09-30", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Add that to AI studio and Vertex's famously terrible caching", "excerpt": "Argon will launch at an introductory price [1] of $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, with cached input tokens priced at 95% off input token price. [1] After the introductory period expires, the price of $4 per 1M input tokens and $20 per 1M output tokens will apply. === So, they are basically offering opus 5.5 pricing. On AA, it scores around Sol 6.1 level (53) with avg cost per task $1.99", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Gemini 4 Argon"}, {"id": 794451937, "item_id": 49653246, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49653246", "by": "selvan", "date": "2026-09-11", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "default long-term memory uses vertext AI (gemini) in ADK.", "excerpt": "Libraries such as agent development kit (https://adk.dev/) provides abstraction over multiple LLM vendors, long-term memory (persistance + compaction) and allow us to manage subagents & their lifecycles. Vendor neutral memory & context management is a challenge as default long-term memory uses vertext AI (gemini) in ADK.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenAI Agents API"}, {"id": 793329731, "item_id": 49583108, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49583108", "by": "sophiechoi", "date": "2026-09-06", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "proxying Google Vertex AI image generation", "excerpt": "Location: Seoul, South Korea Remote: preferred Email: eunhye@choicode.com Website: https://choicode.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eunhye-choicode Software engineer with 6+ years of startup experience building AI-powered products \u2014 production systems with real infrastructure, not API wrappers. Recently shipped: - Entory (https://apps.apple.com/app/id6804258564) \u2014 an AI photo-diary app, built and launched s", "context": "", "use_case": "Image generation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026)"}, {"id": 793156528, "item_id": 49572283, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49572283", "by": "strictnein", "date": "2026-09-05", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "When I use Vertex or the Bedrock, my AI API requests from my instances doesn't leave their networks.", "excerpt": "> They all transit the same wires as all other traffic. Copy them at any regional bottleneck. Oh, is that all? > Again, they transit the same wires as everyone else Which shared wires does Google's traffic go across? Do they share that network with others or do they not function as a Tier 1 network? How about Amazon? And the NSA is doing deep packet inspection of all the traffic going to these places to pull out the ", "context": "", "use_case": "AI API access", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?"}, {"id": 792787075, "item_id": 49549192, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49549192", "by": "garg17793", "date": "2026-09-03", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Vertex AI", "excerpt": "SEEKING WORK | Bengaluru, India (UTC+5:30) | Remote only | Contract / fractional, ~20 hrs/week Senior ML engineer, 10 years. The last 6 owning the entire model layer of a mobile DSP - win-rate prediction, pCTR/pCVR, install prediction, predictive audiences, bid pricing. Models served in-process inside a live bidder under a ~200 microsecond latency ceiling, across ~1B daily bid requests for ~200 advertisers. Things I ", "context": "Senior ML engineer, 10 years", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026)"}, {"id": 789913729, "item_id": 49369608, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49369608", "by": "jubilanti", "date": "2026-08-19", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "GCP/Vertex/whatever they're offering is a billing nightmare", "excerpt": "They get paid the same either way, Openrouter takes their cut and passes it onto the consumer. And anyone with an Openrouter account has already escaped from their proprietary moat. So for those who have expressed a clear preference for provider-agnostic model infrastructure, do you want to just wall yourself away from them forever? And per the rankings [0] 18.2% of the tokens sold through went to OpenAI [1]. 3.8% fo", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenRouter Is Joining Stripe"}, {"id": 783709698, "item_id": 48981856, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48981856", "by": "x313", "date": "2026-07-20", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Google Vertex is even worse.", "excerpt": "Similar story here. DS models are absurdly good value for mid-end tasks. I've found DSv4 Flash to be ~10% the cost of GPT-5.4-mini/Claude Haiku at similar performance. We used to pay OpenAI >1m$/month for fraud classification, NER, etc. Sadly the US companies no longer care about non-coding-agent uses. I imagine uptake will continue to increase as the corporate infra improves. Right now it's still bad - for example, ", "context": "", "use_case": "hosting models", "switched_from": "", "story": "American AI is locked down and proprietary. It's losing"}, {"id": 779778945, "item_id": 48736184, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48736184", "by": "vunderba", "date": "2026-06-30", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "through Vertex [1]", "excerpt": "You can set aspect ratios with NB2 Lite programmatically through Vertex [1]. I updated the program I use to help create all the images for GenAI Showdown, set the model ID to `gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image`, and was able to use aspect ratios like 16:9, 4:3, and others. [1] - https://cloud.google.com/developers/vertex-ai", "context": "", "use_case": "programmatic image generation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Nano Banana 2 Lite"}, {"id": 778623633, "item_id": 48663977, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48663977", "by": "earcar", "date": "2026-06-24", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "to access all VertexAI models we need to support a bunch", "excerpt": "Thank you! Since a few mentioned Responses API: the reason why it wasn't implemented in 1.x is because RubyLLM 1.x effectively assumes a 1:1 mapping between provider and protocol. That assumption no longer holds since OpenAI has 2 protocols with different capabilities, and to access all VertexAI models we need to support a bunch under that single provider. Therefore, a major refactoring to split Protocols and from Pr", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "RubyLLM: A single, beautiful Ruby framework for all major AI providers"}, {"id": 774363453, "item_id": 48397715, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48397715", "by": "tjsawyer", "date": "2026-06-04", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Vertex", "excerpt": "Location: Decatur, GA, USA Remote: Yes (remote only) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Node.js, Express, PostgreSQL/Supabase, pgvector, React, React Router v7, Tailwind, Vercel, Render. Claude (Anthropic), Gemini 3 (Vertex), Kimi K2.6 (Groq), Llama (Groq), Voyage 3 embeddings, ElevenLabs TTS. R\u00e9sum\u00e9/CV: https://www.travissawyer.io/ Portfolio: https://www.regild.ai | Origin story: https://regild.ai/blog/origin-sto", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)"}, {"id": 774263362, "item_id": 48391460, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48391460", "by": "rushcar", "date": "2026-06-03", "version": null, "stance": "compare", "quote": "Vertex / Bedrock have zero prompt logging", "excerpt": "There are differences. Vertex / Bedrock have zero prompt logging for Opus 4.8. Anthropic logs prompts for 30 days. source: https://openrouter.ai/anthropic/claude-opus-4.8/providers", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS"}, {"id": 772409488, "item_id": 48275593, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48275593", "by": "cafkafk", "date": "2026-05-25", "version": null, "stance": "compare", "quote": "Google Vertex (or Google AI Studio) might be a potential alternative, but the UX is a lot worse", "excerpt": "Google Vertex (or Google AI Studio) might be a potential alternative, but the UX is a lot worse, and it can be hard to estimate cost since it's typically lagging. One of the advantages you'll miss when moving from openrouter is going from a \"debit\" based system to a \"credit\" based one. I.e. openrouter you pay up front, Google you're billed monthly based on usage.", "context": "", "use_case": "LLM API access", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Some Sensible Alternative to Openrouter?"}, {"id": 771152944, "item_id": 48197059, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48197059", "by": "r_lee", "date": "2026-05-19", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "even though Vertex is mostly used for inference", "excerpt": "I'm Gen Z.. and I'm just regurgitating what Google sends me via email and funny things like renaming Vertex AI to \"Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform\" (not a joke) even though Vertex is mostly used for inference, e.g. Claude via gcloud or fine tuning models etc. and I use Claude code every day, so I'm not like completely dismissing AI/agentic stuff.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google I/O"}, {"id": 769647634, "item_id": 48102977, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48102977", "by": "bryanmdavis254", "date": "2026-05-11", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "LLMs (OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI, Llama)", "excerpt": "Location: St. Augustine, FL Remote: Yes Technologies: \u2022 AI / GenAI: LLMs (OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI, Llama), RAG, Agentic systems (LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex), MCP, prompt engineering, chat + voice agents \u2022 Backend: Python (FastAPI, Django), Node.js, microservices, event-driven systems (Kafka, SQS), REST, GraphQL \u2022 Cloud: AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability \u2022 Frontend: React, Next.js, TypeScript ", "context": "9+ years full stack, GenAI focus", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)"}, {"id": 768852128, "item_id": 48053258, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48053258", "by": "stijntonk", "date": "2026-05-07", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "for clients we use paid Vertex AI accounts", "excerpt": "No, for clients we use paid Vertex AI accounts. We often need to host workloads in an EU region, which rules out \u201cglobal\u201d models (and probably better capacity). In the past, we used a wrapper that round-robined across multiple projects to get enough quota. Luckily, many of our workloads are workflow-style tasks, so we can simply keep retrying on 429s. Fun fact: for one of their services, I think it was Stitch, I noti", "context": "", "use_case": "Client AI workloads", "switched_from": "", "story": "AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields"}, {"id": 767599378, "item_id": 47974961, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47974961", "by": "lukewarm707", "date": "2026-05-01", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "the main provider i know that just doesn't go down is vertex", "excerpt": "i really don't trust openrouter numbers. i use byok and see responses fail on openrouter while they work perfectly at the provider. the provider is often listed as 'down' and it's very clearly up on the original api and serving requests. cerebras quotes oss 120b at 3000tps and it is under 800 on openrouter. same with fireworks, i am getting much higher numbers not on openrouter. but recently i think fireworks deepsee", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Grok 4.3"}, {"id": 763853745, "item_id": 47740859, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47740859", "by": "extr", "date": "2026-04-12", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "for which I switch to API billing on Vertex", "excerpt": "Yes same here. I use CC almost constantly every day for months across personal and work max/team accounts, as well as directly via API on google vertex. I have hardly ever noticed an issue (aside from occasional outages/capacity issues, for which I switch to API billing on Vertex). If anything it works better than ever.", "context": "", "use_case": "API fallback during outages", "switched_from": "", "story": "Pro Max 5x Quota Exhausted in 1.5 Hours Despite Moderate Usage"}, {"id": 763137187, "item_id": 47696074, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47696074", "by": "smilingbuddhaa", "date": "2026-04-08", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Stack: Langgraph, Langfuse, Go, Python, TS, GraphQL, gRPC/Connect-RPC, PostgreSQL, GCP/Vertex AI, AWS Bedrock.", "excerpt": "Curie | AI Engineer | Hybrid (Chicago), Remote (San Francisco) | Full-time Curie is a telehealth platform combining clinical expertise with AI to deliver personalized, accessible care \u2014 intelligent intake, treatment matching, and AI-powered tools for clinicians. Team includes ex-founders, clinicians, and engineers from Stanford, Harvard, UCLA, Berkeley, and AWS. Well-funded and growing fast. We're hiring an AI Engine", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2026)"}, {"id": 754948928, "item_id": 47184308, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47184308", "by": "verdverm", "date": "2026-02-27", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Gemini via the VertexAi API, much better", "excerpt": "I use Gemini via the VertexAi API, much better, includes Claude models and many of the open weight models too. Ai Studio is terrible, Google's Ai products are subpar (save Deep Research), I blame Logan based on his social media posts and my in platform experience. They seem clueless over there with product.", "context": "", "use_case": "Model access via API", "switched_from": "", "story": "Gemini's 10 days of different outages and increasing high demand"}, {"id": 753873761, "item_id": 47117110, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47117110", "by": "edandersen", "date": "2026-02-22", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "just use those for direct Gemini/Vertex API access", "excerpt": "Google, unlike all their competitors, actually give Cloud API credits to all paying users of AI Pro and AI Ultra [1] - just use those for direct Gemini/Vertex API access instead of trying to hack the OAuth of Google's apps. [1] https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/gdp-premium-ai-pro-ultra/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw"}, {"id": 753223041, "item_id": 47076440, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47076440", "by": "verdverm", "date": "2026-02-19", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "which uses vertex ai and all models therein", "excerpt": "I use gemini for everything because I trust google to keep the data I send them safe, because they know how to run prod at scale, and they are more environmentally friendly than everyone else (tpu,us-central1). This includes my custom agent / copilot / cowork (which uses vertex ai and all models therein). This is where I do more searching now (with genAi grounding) I'm about to work on several micro projects that wil", "context": "", "use_case": "Hosting custom agent", "switched_from": "", "story": "Gemini 3.1 Pro"}, {"id": 752738592, "item_id": 47046162, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47046162", "by": "verdverm", "date": "2026-02-17", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I pay by the token via VertexAi, better than those budget plans that rate limit you", "excerpt": "Claude at $20 / month? I hear it runs out pretty quick though tl;dr - you get what you pay for I pay by the token via VertexAi, better than those budget plans that rate limit you", "context": "", "use_case": "pay-per-token AI coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What is the best bang for buck budget AI coding?"}, {"id": 750820676, "item_id": 46926292, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46926292", "by": "fokdelafons", "date": "2026-02-07", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "AI: Vertex AI", "excerpt": "Tech Stack: Frontend: Flutter (Web & Mobile Monorepo), Backend: Firebase + Google Cloud Run, AI: Vertex AI https://lustra.news/info/tech License: PolyForm Noncommercial \u2014 source is available for inspection, learning, and non-commercial civic use. Commercial use would require a separate agreement. I am looking for contributors. I have the US and Poland live. EU, UK, FR, DE in pipeline. I need help building Data Adapte", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Mirror Parliament where users vote on top of politicians and draft laws"}, {"id": 749988035, "item_id": 46874252, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46874252", "by": "Viper117", "date": "2026-02-03", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Vertex AI (Gemini 1.5/Pro)", "excerpt": "Sentinel Defense Technologies | Remote (Global) | Full-time | Equity + Deferred Cash We are building the world's first AI-powered civilian protection platform. Our mission is to provide military-grade threat intelligence directly to non-combatants in conflict zones (e.g., Ukraine, Middle East), enabling life-saving decisions during the critical first 72 hours of a crisis. We are a Unfunded->Pre-Seed team looking for ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)"}, {"id": 749405600, "item_id": 46837850, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46837850", "by": "verdverm", "date": "2026-01-31", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "I don't see anything you do that they don't already do for me.", "excerpt": "Vertex AI is far more than a \"control plane\" I don't see anything you do that they don't already do for me. I suggest you do a deep dive on their offering as there seem to be gaps in your understanding of what features they have > economics start to look very different You need to put numbers to this, comparing against API calls at per-token pricing is a required comparison imo, because that is the more popular alter", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: How We Run 60 Hugging Face Models on 2 GPUs"}, {"id": 748443297, "item_id": 46777706, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46777706", "by": "throwaway019254", "date": "2026-01-27", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "or Google models through Vertex API", "excerpt": "I use models only through APIs - e.g. gpt-4o through Azure, or Google models through Vertex API. So no data are stored about me.", "context": "", "use_case": "API access to Google models", "switched_from": "", "story": "Tell HN: Ask your AI, \"What can you tell me that you know about me?\" to see ..."}, {"id": 746267760, "item_id": 46641735, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46641735", "by": "LBWasserman", "date": "2026-01-15", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Also built a Google Vertex AI integration demo", "excerpt": "Also built a Google Vertex AI integration demo: https://neurop-forge.onrender.com/demo/google", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: An execution layer that makes AI actions auditable and reversible"}, {"id": 745790818, "item_id": 46611926, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46611926", "by": "mrkiouak", "date": "2026-01-13", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Gemini (both UI & Vertex for initial Annual Town Report summaries & highlights)", "excerpt": "A site I put together while volunteering for my Vermont town, made heavy, heavy use of Claude Code (and occasional Gemini (both UI & Vertex for initial Annual Town Report summaries & highlights). Really pleased with how much time LLMs saved me. Followed a typical \"Comparative Budget info is usually between page 14-40, please parse budget info out into this JSON structure\", I eyeball review, tweak where issues, repeat", "context": "", "use_case": "report summaries", "switched_from": "", "story": "Town Budget Explainer Site"}, {"id": 740418753, "item_id": 46276172, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46276172", "by": "shooker435", "date": "2025-12-15", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "we put Google's Vertex AI product discovery algorithms on Shopify and Salesforce ecommerce storefronts", "excerpt": "We've been building https://nimstrata.com/ for almost three years now, we put Google's Vertex AI product discovery algorithms on Shopify and Salesforce ecommerce storefronts. At a high level, Google does not have a product culture, so there is a lot of white space for companies like ours to make adopting Google Cloud APIs much easier for less technical users. It's also wild how much Agentic AI is creeping into all of", "context": "", "use_case": "Product discovery algorithms", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"}, {"id": 739616896, "item_id": 46226056, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46226056", "by": "BoorishBears", "date": "2025-12-10", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "the (theoretical) production platform for Gemini is Vertex AI, not AI Studio", "excerpt": "As the other comments pointed out, that's not covering billing... But also the (theoretical) production platform for Gemini is Vertex AI, not AI Studio. And until pretty recently using that took figuring out service accounts, and none of Google's docs would demonstrate production usage. Instead they'd use the gcloud CLI to authenticate, and you'd have to figure out how each SDK consumed a credentials file. - Now ther", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration"}, {"id": 737902224, "item_id": 46118889, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46118889", "by": "cubefox", "date": "2025-12-02", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "I don't see any large base models there.", "excerpt": "> If you\u2019re already using GCP, Vertex AI is pretty good. You can run lots of models on it: > https://docs.cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative-ai/docs/m... I don't see any large base models there. A base model is a pretrained foundation model without fine tuning. It just predicts text. > Lambda.ai used to offer per-token pricing but they have moved up market. You can still rent a B200 instance for sub $5/hr which is", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models [pdf]"}, {"id": 737853520, "item_id": 46115845, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46115845", "by": "verdverm", "date": "2025-12-01", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "", "excerpt": "GCloud and Hyperbolic have been my go-to as well", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models [pdf]"}, {"id": 737852560, "item_id": 46115785, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46115785", "by": "reilly3000", "date": "2025-12-01", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "If you\u2019re already using GCP, Vertex AI is pretty good.", "excerpt": "If you\u2019re already using GCP, Vertex AI is pretty good. You can run lots of models on it: https://docs.cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative-ai/docs/model-garden/available-models Lambda.ai used to offer per-token pricing but they have moved up market. You can still rent a B200 instance for sub $5/hr which is reasonable for experimenting with models. https://app.hyperbolic.ai/models Hyperbolic offers both GPU hosting a", "context": "", "use_case": "Model hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models [pdf]"}, {"id": 733088771, "item_id": 45818048, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45818048", "by": "EGreg", "date": "2025-11-04", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "load your stuff into Vertex or whatever", "excerpt": "I started out with linode, a decade ago. It became much more expensive than AWS, because it bundled the hard drive space with the RAM. Couldn't scale one without scaling the other. It was ridiculous. AWS has a bunch of startup credits you can use, if you're smart. But if you want free hosting, nothing beats just CloudFlare. They are literally free and even let you sign up anonymously with any email. They don't even r", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars"}]}