I'm scared to make this video

TL;DR

A developer criticizes Google's deceptive pricing on Gemini 3.5 Flash, its broken Agentic CLI, and Google Cloud's reckless shutdown of Railway's account.

Key Points

• 1.Gemini 3.5 Flash is technically impressive but deeply misleading on price. Google hid costs on the announcement page; pricing tripled to $1.50/million tokens in and $9/million tokens out — a 20x+ increase over the original Gemini 2.0 Flash rates.
• 2.The model wastes tokens catastrophically, making its real-world cost worse than advertised. At 72 million output tokens in benchmarks, it ranks as the fourth most expensive model tested, despite being marketed as a fast, efficient flash model.
• 3.In a practical coding test, Gemini 3.5 Flash failed completely while GPT-4.5 succeeded. Asked to rewrite the Fish Slop game, 3.5 Flash produced broken, untested code with non-functional mechanics; GPT-4.5 did the same task and then rebuilt it in 3D.
• 4.Google killed the open-source Gemini CLI and replaced it with a broken closed-source alternative. The new Agentic CLI, written in Go, has scroll bugs, email leaks in the UI, broken Ctrl+C exit, and persistent UI glitches — and as of June 18th, the old CLI stops working for subscribers.
• 5.Google Cloud blocked Railway's account, taking their entire web-facing service offline. Railway spends $2M+/month on Google Cloud; the ban had no stated reason and echoes a prior incident where Google accidentally deleted a $135B Australian pension fund's entire cloud subscription.
• 6.Google's internal politics sidelined talented people who had built real community trust. Three Google employees — Dmitri, Jack, and Gal — spent over a year privately addressing feedback and preventing this public criticism; their roles were replaced by the Agentic team after Google acquired Windsurf's founders.
• 7.The creator is risking his channel to make this video, citing past retaliation by Google. A previous critical video was demonetized, de-recommended, and flagged as 'enabling dishonest behavior,' suppressing distribution across multiple videos on his channel.