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Strongly agreed. I used Gemini 2.5 Pro over the weekend to build an entire website + backend system in 8 hours, and it would have taken me over a week to get to the same place myself. My total bill for the entire thing? $10.

I am using Gemini 2.5 Flash for analyzing screenshots of webpages as part of it. Total cost for that (assuming I did my math right) ? $0.00002 / image.



It's actually pretty good at that, especially layout/design.

The problem is, the code it produces is usually not great and inconsistent and has subtle bugs. That quickly becomes a problem if you want to change things later, especially while keeping your data consistent and your APIs stable and backwards compatible. At least that's my experience.

But for building something that you can easily throw away later, it's pretty good and saves a lot of time.




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