Gemini Code Assist will be shut down on July 17

Gemini Code Assist will be shut down on July 17(docs.cloud.google.com)

51 points by ushakov 4 hours ago | 38 comments

zydrahydra 1 hour ago |

Googles AI stuff and tiers are probably the most confusing ever because it feels like they rename it all the time. If you subscribe by the time you pay, it has a different name again and the documentation and blogs are all over the place they basically now call everything Google One. It's like all the appliance manufacturers where every store has a different id for the same machine.

giancarlostoro 44 minutes ago | |

The other problem is the pricing includes a bunch of other Google crap I have zero interest in. They're doing the same mistake Microsoft is doing. People like me want only the coding subscription, not everything else that's shoved into it. When I buy into Claude, I am into it for Claude Code, if I cared to give Scam Altman any money it would be for Codex.

toyg 29 seconds ago | | |

That's by design. It's like asking cable companies to only have this or that channel, or netflix to let you pay just for standup comedy specials. The bundle is the bundle, the hits subsidize the misses.

spongebobstoes 35 minutes ago | | |

name calling detracts from your credibility instead of supporting your point

dgellow 3 hours ago |

I think the title is wrong, it's "Gemini Code Assist on GitHub" for non-enterprise users that is being shut down. Not "Gemini Code Assist". Yes their naming scheme is absurd

imglorp 2 hours ago | |

What the doublespeak hell is this?

> The enterprise version of Gemini Code Assist on GitHub is a separate and distinct product from Gemini Code Assist Enterprise.

esperent 2 hours ago | | |

A while back I evaluated using Google's AI products for my company and this is barely the tip of the iceberg when it comes to confusing naming. I left so confused after a few days that I decided there was no way I could inflict that on anyone else in the company. I think the were some good ideas in there but I couldn't tell you which of the ~40 (at least) similarly named products those were.

sixtyj 19 minutes ago | | |

It looks like products being developed by two teams, separate but not independent what can be chosen as the name of service.

claudiacsf 32 minutes ago | |

I'm forever shocked at how marketing illiterate this huge multi-billion $ conglomerate is. I guess when you're Google you don't need to be.

deburo 1 hour ago | |

Hah, is Google now just as bad at naming things as Microsoft?

rcleveng 50 minutes ago | | |

Not quite, I don't see a "Special edition, with offers, without teams" branding on the end of it.

philipwhiuk 2 hours ago | |

Note also:

> Unpaid tier (Gemini Code Assist for individuals) and Google One users only: Gemini CLI and Gemini Code Assist IDE extensions will be replaced by Antigravity CLI and Antigravity on June 18th. Please migrate to avoid disruption. Learn more here.

https://codeassist.google/products/business https://developers.googleblog.com/an-important-update-transi...

rapind 2 hours ago |

Highly recommend exerting the extra effort it takes to remain portable with your AI workflow. Not just to workaround typical Google shut downs, but also the incoming price hikes.

hirvi74 1 hour ago | |

All I use is the web app/chat features for development, so I feel like my bases are covered.

jeffyaw 1 hour ago | |

highly agree, i built typed for this exactly.

nok22kon 1 hour ago | |

the more portable everyone is, the more arbitrage will happen - cheap providers will raise prices too because users will flow to them

xnx 1 hour ago | | |

This is not a theory of market competition that I've heard before.

gnabgib 3 hours ago |

URL should probably be: [Sunset of the Consumer version of Gemini Code Assist on GitHub](https://developers.google.com/gemini-code-assist/docs/deprec...)

Code Assist isn't being shut down (despite the editatorialized title), they're just not giving it away for free anymore.

ghusto 3 hours ago | |

That's one way to frame it. For those who adopted Code Assist and made it part of their process, it's at best a technicality, at worst extortion.

KptMarchewa 3 hours ago |

> Important: The enterprise version of Gemini Code Assist on GitHub is a separate and distinct product from Gemini Code Assist Enterprise.

Ah yes, the famous clarity with Google product naming. Nearly as good as Microsoft's naming.

glimshe 3 hours ago | |

Came here to say this. I have no idea what these products are supposed to be. Very much "Windows Github Copilot Home", "Github Enterprise Office 365", "Docs Gemini Assist One", "Windows Copilot Pro Educational"

tosti 1 hour ago | | |

Azure %product% With CoPilot for Workgroups 365 Enterprise Edition

chakintosh 2 hours ago |

https://killedbygoogle.com/

kingkongjaffa 2 hours ago |

If google ever fails it will be because they are fundamentally bad at product management.

the_other 1 hour ago | |

Their product is ads slots and data, which they seem to be brilliant at. Everything else is a funnel to feed the ads, and the funnels change like wvery other marketing funnel.

esafak 1 hour ago |

It was good while it lasted, genuinely and consistently finding errors. I migrated to https://github.com/zeflq/pi-reviewer so I can be in control. There are commercial alternatives, of course.

m4rtink 3 hours ago |

Thank you Google, you are one of the last remaining companies we can depend on behaving consistently! Please never change! ;-)

crazysim 3 hours ago |

Who's making the PR?

https://killedbygoogle.com/

philipwhiuk 3 hours ago | |

This is separate from https://github.com/codyogden/killedbygoogle/pull/1694 right?

tatsuya-tamaya 3 hours ago |

This is exactly the kind of risk I try to flag when reviewing AI tools for non-technical solopreneurs — a tool being genuinely good today says nothing about whether it'll still exist in 6 months. I've started weighting "how painful is it if this disappears" almost as heavily as the feature set itself, because the people I write for don't have the bandwidth to migrate on short notice if something like this happens. Was anyone here building a real workflow around Code Assist specifically, or was it more of a nice-to-have layered on top of something else?

throw_m239339 2 hours ago | |

Most of these free AI coding tool/agents won't exist anymore by 2028. This LLM thing is so expensive to run, it's understandable that these corporations are moving to the monetization phase.

What solopreneurs also need to worry about is that the cost for these tools is likely to increase... exponentially, because even paid, the plans are still heavily subsidized... when the profit seeking phase kicks in, some people indeed will be there for a rude awakening...

I personally do not to rely heavily on these tools for my projects, because I know what's going to happen.

nok22kon 1 hour ago | | |

anthropic has 80% margin on API tokens

dude250711 3 hours ago |

Shut down the whole thing.

jckahn 2 hours ago | |

Why?

tosti 1 hour ago | | |

People are afraid for the singularity. Can't blame them, hollywood has been milking that hypothesis for decades.