alt Hacker Newsi just wish google cloud ux was remotely as good as their models. they made some progress with their studio, but then in a true google fashion, product names keep changing (Gemini, Anti-gravity, Vertex, Google AI,...) as well as confusion and complexity for something as simple as registering agy cli with a Google cloud project.
today i wanted to link agy to a google cloud project, for that i had to enable 5 different APIs in google cloud UI, then create a subscription for Gemini Enterprise (whatever that is), then link it to a project, then assign it to a user. and after all that, agy couldn't find the subscription.
the best part: i couldn't cancel the subscription. so i just paid $35 for one month and left it.
Gemini is the model family.
Antigravity is their agentic coding app / IDE. There is two products, one is chat-only the other is more standard IDE.
Google AI Studio is a consumer/developer playground with a in-browser IDE meant for prototypes or demos, there is a gallery of demos etc. Easily shared, easy key access.
Vertex is the AI offering from the GCP side of the company, that is going to target more enterprise or business solutions (scaling, data governance, security, production deployents, etc)