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Gemini CLI

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joelm ◴[] No.44379446[source]
Been using Claude Code (4 Opus) fairly successfully in a large Rust codebase, but sometimes frustrated by it with complex tasks. Tried Gemini CLI today (easy to get working, which was nice) and it was pretty much a failure. It did a notably worse job than Claude at having the Rust code modifications compile successfully.

However, Gemini at one point output what will probably be the highlight of my day:

"I have made a complete mess of the code. I will now revert all changes I have made to the codebase and start over."

What great self-awareness and willingness to scrap the work! :)

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ZeroCool2u ◴[] No.44379714[source]
Personally my theory is that Gemini benefits from being able to train on Googles massive internal code base and because Rust has been very low on uptake internally at Google, especially since they have some really nice C++ tooling, Gemini is comparatively bad at Rust.
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danielbln ◴[] No.44380865[source]
Interesting, Gemini must be a monster when it comes to Go code then. I gotta try it for that
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1. chewz ◴[] No.44394946[source]
Reasonsbly small Go codebase works well almost with any LLM

I had always designed very large projects as few medium sized independent Go tools and that strategy pays in times of AI assisted coding.