[Workaccount2]

Gemini CLI is pretty weak, but the Gemini 2.5 pro is still the best for long contexts. Claude is great but it crumbles as you start to get in the 50-100k range. I find Gemini doesn't start to crack until the 150-200k range. It's too bad the tooling around it is mediocre at best.

[CuriouslyC]

One of my favorite patterns is to use repomix to take a project repo and turn it into a single file, drop it in gemini and chat with it for a while about how to improve the codebase, then ask it to create a hyper-detailed set of instructions for claude to implement the changes we discussed. The planning tends to be much better than Opus because you've got your whole codebase in context and you've been chatting and steering the model for a bit, plus it can save you ~200-300k tokens.