Guide for using Google Gemini model API
Author's Note: A deep dive into the Gemini Nano Banana Pro API "overloaded" and "service unavailable" errors, including root causes, timing patterns, practical solutions, and production-grade best practices. Early on January 16, 2026, at 12:18 AM, a surge of developers reported seeing "The model is overloaded. Please try again later." and even "The service is…
Understanding Gemini API Safety Settings: A Deep Dive When working with Gemini's image generation API (like gemini-2.0-flash-exp-image-generation or gemini-3-pro-image-preview), you've probably come across configuration code like this: "safetySettings": [ {"category": "HARM_CATEGORY_HARASSMENT", "threshold": "BLOCK_NONE"}, {"category": "HARM_CATEGORY_HATE_SPEECH", "threshold": "BLOCK_NONE"}, {"category": "HARM_CATEGORY_SEXUALLY_EXPLICIT", "threshold": "BLOCK_NONE"}, {"category": "HARM_CATEGORY_DANGEROUS_CONTENT", "threshold": "BLOCK_NONE"} ] What does this configuration actually mean? Does BLOCK_NONE really…
