Gemini CLI

> That’s why we’re introducing Gemini CLI

Definitely not because of Claude Code eating our lunch!

Yea, i'm not even really interested in Gemini atm because last i tried 2.5 Pro it was really difficult to shape behavior. It would be too wordy, or offer too many comments, etc - i couldn't seem to change some base behaviors, get it to focus on just one thing.

Which is surprising because at first i was ready to re-up my Google life. I've been very anti-Google for ages, but at first 2.5 Pro looked so good that i felt it was a huge winner. It just wasn't enjoyable to use because i was often at war with it.

Sonnet/Opus via Claude Code are definitely less intelligent than my early tests of 2.5 Pro, but they're reasonable, listen, stay on task and etc.

I'm sure i'll retry eventually though. Though the subscription complexity with Gemini sounds annoying.

> It would be too wordy, or offer too many comments

Wholeheartedly agree.

Both when chatting in text mode or when asking it to produce code.

The verbosity of the code is the worse. Comments often longer than the actual code, every nook and cranny of an algorithm unrolled over 100's of lines, most of which unnecessary.

Feels like typical code a mediocre Java developer would produce in the early 2000's

> Feels like typical code a mediocre Java developer would produce in the early 2000's

So, google's codebase