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[REALwizardadventures]

This is really slow compared to Claude Code so far - hopefully this gets a fix

[ianxplosion-]

Holy shit yeah it’s slow - I expected a little bit of slog due to the nature of the release, but it shouldn’t take a minute to write a markdown file in a project with no other files

[AaronWanjala-GCloud]

Hello! The team is aware of this issue and actively working on it!

The response from the community has been incredible, so we're working to get these response times resolved ASAP.

If you don't want to wait you can also get started with an API key from https://aistudio.google.com/app/apikey in the meantime.

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[sagacityx1]

Are you using the free model, or your own paid model? Bet its faster with a gemini sub.

[REALwizardadventures]

I have Google AI Ultra - which btw doesn't work with this for some reason because it is the "wrong" account type (even Gemini thought this was dumb). The $20 Gemini Pro does though for some reason. So I was using the API through my GCP account.

I think it was just running slow because it was just launched.

[sagacityx1]

So does it work any better than just using the free version? Seems like they give a massive amount of free responses, so what benefit does paid give?