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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 throwaway894345 »

aleksiy123 wrote: post #149
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 saw someone in a different thread describe Google product/tool strategy as a: “monkey knife fight” And tbh I can’t really argue with that.

Reminds me of the Microsoft days circa 2010 when Microsoft published half a dozen media players (Zune!), word processors, email clients, etc.

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

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Post by Spooky23 »

wmf wrote: post #34
brookst wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The rest of out here watching usage and telemetry to decide where to invest, meanwhile, over at Google…

What if their telemetry shows very low usage? I've seen virtually no discussion of Gemini CLI online.

There's a fair amount of enterprise usage. It's a really good product, despite the Claude hype. Anthropic is a PITA to deal with, and it's slow as shit weekday morning Eastern time.

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

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Post by ethbr1 »

blitzar wrote: post #97
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 disagree; gemini is their ai model brand, antigravity is their code harness. Its much better branding than calling every single product "Co-Pilot (tm)".

Ah, so Gemini is the new Watson.

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

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Post by blitzar »

ethbr1 wrote: post #153
blitzar wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I disagree; gemini is their ai model brand, antigravity is their code harness. Its much better branding than calling every single product "Co-Pilot (tm)".

Ah, so Gemini is the new Watson.

Gemini Inside (tm)

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

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Post by blitzar »

hydra-f wrote: post #102
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…

By unifying the billing and quota systems, as well as providing better integration, I presume The Antigravity harness is by far better than the gemini-cli one. Antigravity also offers models other than Gemini as well. When you say Antigravity, you think of a platform whereas when you say Gemini you think of the model It's great that gemini-cli is open-source, but that also comes with a bunch of ai-generated issues an…

When you say Antigravity, I think of floating around on a space ship.

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

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Post by WhitneyLand »

Wow, this is rough. Gemini Cli was already losing and it’s now being replaced by something they’re saying doesn’t yet have feature parity. Doesn’t seem likely to inspire defections from competitors.

One could argue coding is only a use case and that their models are still killing it overall. However agents are strategic across the board and coding agents are at the forefront. They’ve already lead to new products like CoWork and it’s easy to understand why Google should be doing everything possible to catch up.

Surprised they’re not trying to entice developers away with more heavily subsidized subscription plans. Maybe it’s because as some say those days are ending and soon we’ll all be paying per token. Or maybe it would just put too much of a strain on available compute.

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

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Post by AlanYx »

tomrod wrote: post #138
decimalenough wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not an IDE, it's a way to run agents. In particular, the Antigravity CLI positioned as Gemini CLI's successor is a shell with superpowers, not something you would use for code development.

You proved the point. Gemini has been marketed better, such that even folks in the know confuse Antigravity (the IDE) with anything else attempting to be pushed.

Antigravity CLI was only announced yesterday, so pretty much no one realizes it's different from Antigravity IDE yet, but I agree with your overall point. This kind of branding is toxic for individual product awareness. I'm not sure what drives the thinking behind it; Microsoft does it too (Copilot, etc.).

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

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Post by bmitc »

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 have never understood basically any decision Google makes at any level. I think they're equivalent to a land owner sitting on top of oil. They have no idea what to do, and anything they do makes pennies compared to the oil, so it doesn't really matter what they do on top of that, customers be damned.

As if I needed another reason to hate them, they turned our Nest back to shitty thermostats last year by dropping older models from their Google Home service. There's no justification for it other than some product owner wanted to.

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

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Post by chrisweekly »

hydra-f wrote: post #102
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…

By unifying the billing and quota systems, as well as providing better integration, I presume The Antigravity harness is by far better than the gemini-cli one. Antigravity also offers models other than Gemini as well. When you say Antigravity, you think of a platform whereas when you say Gemini you think of the model It's great that gemini-cli is open-source, but that also comes with a bunch of ai-generated issues an…

OSS == "great... but... will impede development"?
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