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performance is quite impressive given that its 3x cheaper than 5.5
The speed was impressive when I tested it but unfortunately the accuracy left a lot to be desired. Be interesting to do the math on some of my normal workflows to see where the break even is between them, assuming the tasks you have can tolerate a couple of failures.
gemini 3.5 flash isn't meant to compete head to head with frontier models on tough problems
So... has Google provided a Codex/Claude Code equivalent to Gemini yet? I would like to use Gemini for coding tasks, but that's kind of difficult to do as I don't even know how to get Gemini to even "clone this repo and read the code in it for static analysis", much less open PRs in repos. ChatGPT/Codex can do it, Claude can do it, why can't Gemini? And no, I don't mean going through Antigravity, and personally I'm w…
no. gemini's instruction following is currently abysmal. Gemini CLI could be a great scaffold for all we know, but we cant know because the models it uses are so horribly bad at being driven in that way. no clue why google has dropped the ball this hard on IF.
It is not better.
So... has Google provided a Codex/Claude Code equivalent to Gemini yet? I would like to use Gemini for coding tasks, but that's kind of difficult to do as I don't even know how to get Gemini to even "clone this repo and read the code in it for static analysis", much less open PRs in repos. ChatGPT/Codex can do it, Claude can do it, why can't Gemini? And no, I don't mean going through Antigravity, and personally I'm w…
Antigravity CLI (which replaced Gemini CLI): https://antigravity.google/product/antigravity-cli
First headache was a lot of delays and 'service unavailable due to excessive load messages'. Second headache was a lot of frustration with the Continue plugin in my IDE. Gemini chat suggests I try the Antigravity app. I do so. IT's OK. Launch it on an agentic task, it gets part way through and stops, asking me to subscribe. Try getting it to use some of the Gemini credits I paid for a few days earlier. Turns out Antigravity is developed by a completely separate team within Google and they don't recognize or accommodate Gemini credits because they are trying to maintain budgetary independence so as to maintain operational autonomy Gemini. At least, that's the explanation Gemini (free tier) offered for why Antigravity (Free/subscription only) won't accept Gemini (prepaid/subscription) payments. What a time to be alive.
You won't be surprised to learn I switched to a competitor.
Today I asked Gemini to extract a table from an PDF appendix and create C++ data table with its contents. After 15 or so iterations with corrections and new mistakes, it eventually gave up. I was floored when it said “I’m sorry, I cannot do this simple task, I’ve exceeded my error threshold and cannot do this task for you. My LLM prediction engine invents data instead of doing a simple data copy/reformat”. Stunned to…
My go-to for this is to screenshot and use the built-in text extraction in the screenshot tool (I'm on a mac), then pass on that text data to whatever processing. It's a pretty good tool so long as the PDF is in OK shape (I've had errors in scanned images).
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This is why I don't always use the official Gemini Web app. Lately I've found that it's more useful to utilize a CLI. I'm looking forward to the day they add MCP in the web.
Gemini CLi now requires antigravity subscription..
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That's better than the loop grok got stuck in trying to use git and push the work it did leading to a $15 api credit deduction.
Getting AI/ML to acknowledge "I don't know" is such a challenge.
So... has Google provided a Codex/Claude Code equivalent to Gemini yet? I would like to use Gemini for coding tasks, but that's kind of difficult to do as I don't even know how to get Gemini to even "clone this repo and read the code in it for static analysis", much less open PRs in repos. ChatGPT/Codex can do it, Claude can do it, why can't Gemini? And no, I don't mean going through Antigravity, and personally I'm w…
no. gemini's instruction following is currently abysmal. Gemini CLI could be a great scaffold for all we know, but we cant know because the models it uses are so horribly bad at being driven in that way. no clue why google has dropped the ball this hard on IF.
I haven't tried it at that because for the short range tasks I gave it I found it around Sonnet level, but slower (because it takes more tries!) which makes it more expensive.
The old Flash models were great because they were fast.
3.5 Flash shows Google can work around the old "Good, Fast or Cheap: Pick any two" thing by picking none of them.
So... has Google provided a Codex/Claude Code equivalent to Gemini yet? I would like to use Gemini for coding tasks, but that's kind of difficult to do as I don't even know how to get Gemini to even "clone this repo and read the code in it for static analysis", much less open PRs in repos. ChatGPT/Codex can do it, Claude can do it, why can't Gemini? And no, I don't mean going through Antigravity, and personally I'm w…
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I think there's a sweet spot- a lot of the time you're probably better off with "reverse engineer this web page and build me an API or personalized chrome extension to meet my needs". I have an agent doing price checks for me for an item on a certain website. Instead of blasting through a zillion tokens processing the DOM over and over, it loaded the page once and figured out how to download a json with the price.
Does it have to view the page now repeatedly to download the JSON?