The best part about Total Commander is that my license from like 20 years ago is still valid, and every update that comes out still works with it and never pushes for upgrades, etc. As much as new software has dark patterns and upsells everywhere, Total Commander is wonderfully frozen in time in that regard.

When I ran Android Police, we were one of the largest Scroll users in the beginning and I was pretty upset when Scroll shut down.

However, it never amounted to any meaningful revenue and was just a nice way to implement ad-free subscriptions across various sites. Other big sites used it too, like The Verge and Gizmodo and I thought it had some potential.

steps: 1⃣ "Get API key" in the docs page → redirects to a different page 2⃣ "Create API key" → asks me to select a project 3⃣ "Select a project" → asks me to create a project 4⃣ Project created → asks me to name the key 5⃣ Name the key → asks me to connect billing account 6⃣ Click on "free tier" → redirects to a different page 7⃣ "Link billing account" → prompts me to fill the form to increase the quota

I saw 4 pages, 7(!) modals and I still can't use the API key.

Then somewhere along the way I also see a prompt to use VertexAI which quadruples the confusion. it's just stupid.

Logan Kilpatrick @OfficialLoganK 3h I am sorry for the pain on this, we are doing a bunch to address this:

1. We are moving the docs into AI Studio, so you won't need to jump from the docs into AI Studio, it will all be integrated, ETA is Q1 to be fully complete with this.

2. Right now, we auto create projects and keys for new users so they don't need to click anything, it just works. I think the edge case is that it only happens during the account creation flow right now. I pinged the team to make sure we add this for existing users so they will be able to just have a project and key created by default, ETA 2nd week of Jan.

3. Will be fixed by the above, we will also auto select a project going forward, ETA 1st week of Jan.

4. We will auto populate a name for you when you create a new key, ETA 2nd week of Jan.

5 & 6. We are bringing the billing setup process directly into AI Studio, this will make it so we don't have to redirect to the cloud console for you to setup a billing account, ETA for initial rollout is Jan 20th.

7. I will debug this part further, agreed it is super confusing. The issue here is that we limit the number of projects you can add to a single billing account (since this is one of the ways that people commit mass scale abuse / fraud on our platform), let me poke around to see what we can do to make this more simple.

Thank you for the feedback and sorry for the hassle on this. Always more to do!

My usually prefer Gemini but sometimes other tools catch bugs Gemini doesn't.

As someone who has never heard of Graphite, can anyone share their experience comparing it to any of the tools above?

Now, would I prefer to use vs code with an extension instead? Yes, in the perfect world. But Cursor makes a better, more cohesive overall product through their vertical integration, and I just did the jump (it's easy to migrate) and can't go back.

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