LLM Deprecations and Price Changes
A colleague told me a near-miss horror story. As Google began deprecating Gemini 2.0, we moved to Gemini 2.5 Pro. But reasoning is enabled by default and cannot be turned off. For our specific problem statement, reasoning was not required. Token costs increased 10x and speeds were 3-4x slower. We moved the client to Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite, which has reasoning turned off by default and offers much lower latency. ...