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by tempest_ 24 days ago
I have not tried the Gemini CLI in a few months but when I did it was a shit show.

Google makes it very hard to use their shit and it was full of bugs.

Anthropic's current run is based entirely around Claude Code in this space and the last time I used the gemeini-cli it wouldnt give me access to the latest models and I was paying them for the privilege
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Tuna-Fish 24 days ago
Google trashed the Gemini CLI client and replaced it with agy (antigravity), which is written in go and is much nicer.
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throwawaycan 24 days ago
Interesting you say that. Every user I speak to says antigravity cli is missing lots of features and Gemini cli was working quite well. Same for me.
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Tuna-Fish 23 days ago
It's not as feature rich, but has also not crashed once for me, unlike gemini cli, which was a flickery, unstable mess.
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tempest_ 24 days ago
So they did.

https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/discussions/2727...

I get the complaints in that thread but I still think it is hilarious. That repo is a gong show to random shit and perhaps one of the best worst examples of "opensource" LLM development.

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marysol5 24 days ago
It will also just sit there "thinking" for ages, if whatever you are doing requires an input (like sudo)

Sometimes you have to tab across and give it a PW, but it seemingly is incapable of parsing that, and just asking.

Kiro, what we use at work, on the other hand will just prompt you. (And doesn't like taking credentials directly)

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