Where are you using it? Is Gemini CLI at a usable state? It was a frustrating, miserable experience last time I gave it a shot.

Antigravity seems significantly better in comparison, but with lower usage limits. If I run out, I usually don't bother switching to Gemini CLI.

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jalcazar 20 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I tried it the very first day it was available to Google employees, and it was not usable.

Then a few weeks back, I gave it another try and I was pleasantly surprised.

It was insanely good!

A colleague and I have been on-and-off trying to build a C++ binary against specific Google libraries for months without success. Then, Gemini CLI was able to build the binary after 2-3 days iterating and refining prompts

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freedomben 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

As long as you force it to use the pro model and not flash, it is pretty usable. If you go with the default settings though, it will use flash aggressively which results in pretty bad code. I only use it with pro exclusively now.

Even with pro, I have caught it going off the rails a few times. The most frustrating was when I asked it to do translations, and it decided there were too many to do so it wrote a python script that ran locally and used some terrible library to do literal translations, and some of them were downright offensive and sexual in nature. For translations though, Gemini is the best but you have to have it do a sentence or two at a time. If you provide the context around the text, it really knocks it out of the park

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zobzu 3 hours ago | parent [-]

flash is the fast (duh) model though. its not always beneficial to use pro. in practice: 1/ set to flash 3.1 ; 2/ force to pro...sometimes. mainly when the cli fails to predict what model to use.

note that it will sometimes fall back to flash 2, which sucks

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mapontosevenths an hour ago | parent [-]

Flash will absolutely destroy a complex codebase. It's like a drunk junior programmer. Don't trust it with anything more complex than autocomplete.

Pro is expensive, but good. However they've decreased the pitiful stipend they used to include in even the ultra plan to the point were it's barely usable. I pivoted back to ChatGPT Pro after the recent downgrade they gave Ultra users. Googles Ultra plan cost 2.5x as much and delivers about half the usage.

	▲	sureMan6 32 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah I don't get the user who said Gemini is generous with the quota, I get more use out of codex with the 5 hour limits than Gemini gives me in a week

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walthamstow 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's definitely not as good as Codex or Claude Code but it is cheap. You just have to manage it a bit more. I got a year for free with my phone and I still pay for Codex, so take from that what you will.