Oh, *Now* They Want Developers?

Right. Google’s finally decided to let people actually extend their Gemini Code Assist thingy. After years of locking everything down tighter than Fort Knox, they’re releasing an extensions system. Apparently, realizing nobody was going to use a closed-garden coding tool (shocking, I know) prompted this brilliant move.

Basically, it lets developers build plugins – in Python, naturally, because *everything* is Python these days – to connect Gemini Code Assist to other services and tools. Think GitHub Copilot but…later. They’re pushing a “secure sandbox” which I’m sure will be totally impenetrable and never, ever have vulnerabilities. Yeah, right.

They’ve got some launch partners like Replit and Weights & Biases showing off the shiny new toys, and there’s an SDK for anyone stupid enough to bother. It’s all cloud-based, of course. Because Google needs more of your data. And money. Don’t forget the money.

The whole thing feels like a desperate attempt to catch up, frankly. They spent ages building this proprietary system and now they’re scrambling to add features everyone else had years ago. It’s just…great. Absolutely fucking *fantastic*.

Expect it to be buggy, overpriced, and require you to sell your soul to use effectively.

Source: TechCrunch

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Reminds me of the time a company tried to sell me a “revolutionary” network monitoring system that only worked with their hardware. I told them where to stick it, built my own solution in an afternoon using open-source tools, and saved them about $50k. Some people just *have* to learn things the hard way.

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