[cmrdporcupine]

I bought one of the google AI packages that came with a pile of drive storage and Gemini access.

Unfortunately gemini as a coding agent is a steaming useless pile. They have no right selling it, cheap open weight Chinese models are better at this point.

It's not stupid it just is incompetent at tool use and makes bad mistakes. It constantly gets itself into weird dysfunctional loops when doing basic things like editing files.

I'm not sure what GOOG employees are using internally, but I hope they're not being saddled with Gemini 3.1. It's miles behind.

[surajrmal]

Are you using gemini CLI or antigravity? The former is not really comparable to the latter in terms of quality. I wouldn't say antigravity is as good as the competition but it's pretty close. Miles behind is overstating it.

[cmrdporcupine]

Gemini CLI but also used the Gemini models via opencode. They're terrible at CLI tool use. Like I said, just editing text files, they fall over rapidly, constantly making mistakes and then mistakes fixing their mistakes.

Antigravity wants me to switch IDEs, and I'm not going to do that.

[surajrmal]

This lines up with my experience. Antigravity doesn't have this shortcoming though. I think the agent harness matters equally to the model. Gemini CLI and opencode aren't very great harnesses in my opinion.

I too dislike having my choice of ide forced on me. Hopefully that situation improves, but antigravity demonstrates that Gemini isn't necessarily behind by that much.

[qingcharles]

Gemini 3.1 is a good coding agent. We've been totally spoiled now. Also, if you use Antigravity you can burn up Opus 4.6 credits off your Goog account instead, before you have to switch to Gem 3.1.