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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 opsnooperfax »

throwaway894345 wrote: post #151
aleksiy123 wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I think this is a systemic problem of an industry where gross margin is 80% or higher, so you can plow all that extra money into superfluous headcount tasked with objectives of questionable business value. It’s a curse of riches, if you will. The rest of us living on 15 to 30% margins need to think a little harder about what we do and why.

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

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Post by pbmonster »

Havoc wrote: post #139

>This account isn't eligible for Google Antigravity And clicking on "Explore Google AI plans" takes me to...I kid you not...the storage settings page of google drive. Genuinely can't tell wtf google even wants me to use. Vertex? Gemini? Antigravity? Antigravity 2? Agent platform? Google One? Gemini Enterprise? Google AI? Don't they have a senior management team that can impose some coordination?

I wonder what the hell the problem with naming things is in the AI space. They pretty much all suck at it.

OpenAI came up with GPT 4o, o4, 4.5, 4.1 (which came out later than 4.5 and had a completely different purpose), Microsoft just calls everything a copilot (Github Copilot, Azure Copilot, Microsoft Copilot - all from the same company, completely different things), and Google apparently just picks random words from the comments.

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

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Post by nonethewiser »

srameshc wrote: post #19

Whoever is in charge of these decisions, is absolutely disconnected with the reality. First they sent a message saying the Ultra plan is ending, with no other option for a Workspace use to buy an equivalent plan. It was suppose to be active tilll June or July 7 , that's all. So the users are not suppose to know how they will need to plan or budget and just guess. I read once that after a certain level , the managers…

TBH it seems messier to have both Gemini CLI and Antigravity

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

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Post by [deleted] »

bmitc wrote: post #159
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 ol…

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

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Post by BeetleB »

asdfsa32 wrote: post #98
asdfsa32 wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Whoever is in charge of these decisions, is absolutely disconnected with the reality. The problem is with your perception of reality. Google doesn't operate for the outside, you're on the outside, Google operates for Google and people in Google care about themselves first, then Google, and then -- if t all, outside.

I am really curious to know about the people who are downvoting this. I really want to know why, genuinely.

The issue is that your comment is a rationalization. In reality, evidence beats logic any day of the week. Just because what you say is logical doesn't mean it's true. As such, it's not adding anything to the conversation.

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

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Post by jawilson2 »

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, you think of a platform..."

No, I don't.

I've never heard of Antigravity, but have (rarely) used Gemini, so there's that.

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

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Post by otikik »

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…

> It's great that gemini-cli is open-source, but that also comes with a bunch of ai-generated issues and pull-requests, which is sure to impede development

In a way, it is exciting to me that people exist that think like this. It is so different than how I think, we could be from different planets.

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

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Post by BeetleB »

Insanity wrote: post #140
Havoc wrote: post #139

>This account isn't eligible for Google Antigravity And clicking on "Explore Google AI plans" takes me to...I kid you not...the storage settings page of google drive. Genuinely can't tell wtf google even wants me to use. Vertex? Gemini? Antigravity? Antigravity 2? Agent platform? Google One? Gemini Enterprise? Google AI? Don't they have a senior management team that can impose some coordination?

Sounds like they vibe coded that instead. Google has such poor UX flows at times, it doesn’t surprise me.

Google's UX was terrible long before LLMs, as any Google Cloud user can attest to.

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

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Post by HarHarVeryFunny »

decimalenough wrote: post #134
tauntz wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> When you say Antigravity, you think of a platform Absolutely not? When you say "Antigravity" then the first thing that comes to mind is "yet another IDE" and I have no desire in switching my IDE.

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.

I don't think so? Gemini CLI (RIP) was more of a direct competitor to Claude Code - a CLI based coding agent. Antigravity was more IDE-like, based around a VS Code fork (so more like Cursor). Antigravity CLI, per the name, seems to be positioning it as a replacement for Gemini CLI, so certainly(?) a Claude Code CLI-based coding agent, but now one with multi-agent support and some sort of server-side harness as well apparently, doing who knows what.

Any CLI-based coding agent can equally well be described as "a shell with superpowers", and people were using Claude Code for non-coding tasks (e.g. sysadmin) before OpenClaw appeared and made that it's main purpose.

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