Why create two different APIs that are the same, but only subtly different, and ...

chrisheecho · 2025-05-04T19:32:00 1746387120

I think you are talking about generativeai vs. vertexai vs. genai sdk.

And you are watching us evolve overtime to do better.

Couple clarifications 1. Going forward we only recommend using genai SDK 2. Subtle API differences - this is a bit harder to articulate but we are working to improve this. Please dm at @chrischo_pm if you would like to discuss further :)

troupo · 2025-05-04T21:23:57 1746393837

So. Three different SDKs.

No idea what any of those SDK names mean. But sure enoough searching will bring up all three of them for different combination of search terms, and none of them will point to the "recommend only using <a random name that is indistinguishable form other names>"

Oh, And some of these SDKs (and docs) do have a way to use this functionality without the SDKs, but not others. Because there are only 4 languages in the world, and everyone should be happy using them.