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Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026

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Re: Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026

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Post by seviu »

crakhamster01 wrote: post #72

How does anyone internally at Google justify these decisions? Even if there are competing implementations, in terms of brand recognition, I feel like “Gemini” is more closely associated with Google than “Antigravity”. Why pick the more obscure option?! Perhaps they felt the sentiment on Gemini CLI was beyond repair, but surely there must be some voice on the inside saying “developers will never adopt our products if…

In those rare occasion when I want to use Gemini I just type gemini on my terminal.

Gemini was on life support on my side. I barely get to use it due to its subpar performance in coding, which is to be honest the only use I have of it.

And now I read that they spent 4 to 5 months testing 3.5 internally. Let that sink in. By the time they release the world has moved on. I don’t know who makes decisions at Google regarding AI but it saddens me to see this happening. Google should be up there leading but they are lagging against everybody.

How can I justify dropping 100$ per month, for a coding agent that is half a year behind, knowing that Codex or Kimi is going to do much better?

Stock might be ripping but that’s about it.

Re: Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026

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Post by Raed667 »

ddalex wrote: post #79
antonvs wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are 13,700 forks of its repo on Github. If anything, I suspect closing the source for their coding agent may have been part of the goal.

If the repo is already forked, what difference does it make if Google supports it or not? The community can just continue development if they so choose

google can kill your account for using an unsupported harness when/if they choose

Re: Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026

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Post by No1 »

artdigital wrote: post #46

As much as I like Gemini CLI and don’t like them shutting it down, I think it’s good some of the offerings are getting unified. There was too much fragmentation in the google offering and this is making it a tiny bit better.

They used to have Antigravity and Gemini CLI.

Now they have Antigravity IDE, Antigravity 2, and Antigravity CLI.

Re: Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026

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Post by popcorncowboy »

seviu wrote: post #81
crakhamster01 wrote: post #72

How does anyone internally at Google justify these decisions? Even if there are competing implementations, in terms of brand recognition, I feel like “Gemini” is more closely associated with Google than “Antigravity”. Why pick the more obscure option?! Perhaps they felt the sentiment on Gemini CLI was beyond repair, but surely there must be some voice on the inside saying “developers will never adopt our products if…

In those rare occasion when I want to use Gemini I just type gemini on my terminal. Gemini was on life support on my side. I barely get to use it due to its subpar performance in coding, which is to be honest the only use I have of it. And now I read that they spent 4 to 5 months testing 3.5 internally. Let that sink in. By the time they release the world has moved on. I don’t know who makes decisions at Google regar…

On the other hand I quietly cheer every time they fumble even slightly, in their seemingly inexorable march to becoming our ultimate, terrifying, corporate overlords.

Re: Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026

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Post by jstummbillig »

crakhamster01 wrote: post #72

How does anyone internally at Google justify these decisions? Even if there are competing implementations, in terms of brand recognition, I feel like “Gemini” is more closely associated with Google than “Antigravity”. Why pick the more obscure option?! Perhaps they felt the sentiment on Gemini CLI was beyond repair, but surely there must be some voice on the inside saying “developers will never adopt our products if…

I would wager your feelings conflict with their analysis (which they are probably quite good at, with all that practice)

Re: Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026

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Post by hintymad »

It’s a good decision. If an IDE can do everything that a CLI does and it surely can, then I fail to see the point of a CLI. It’s not like an IDE can’t emulate everything a CLI does but better, faster, and more interactive. It’s not like one does not need to read code either. Besides, what about session management? What about configuring agents, especially for multi-agent orchestration? The list can go on. The point is, IDE or GUI in general gives us optionality. Then, what’s wrong with that?

One may argue that Google’s Antigravity is clunky or cluttered or something worse, but that’s confusing organizational capability with principles.

Re: Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026

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Post by maipen »

silverlight wrote: post #8

Google really can’t help themselves but to have some internal re-org kill off a public thing people are actively using. It’s honestly impressive how consistent they are.

Even thought there are people using, it doesn’t mean they see a future in it. Google is the best when it comes to analytics and trends. If they see a product is expected to fail, which in this case it was, they simply kill it and move on instead of wasting resources saving a sinking ship.

Of course, something could’ve been improved, but that’s just how they operate.

I could be completely wrong though

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