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Re: Run interactive commands in Gemini CLI

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Post by theshrike79 »

sunaookami wrote: post #15
jasonjmcghee wrote: post #7

I've had a pretty poor experience with Gemini. I've had to convince it to do things it should just be able to do but thinks it can't for some reason. Like reading from a file outside of the project directory- it can do it fine, but refuses to unless you convince it that no it actually can. Also has inserted "\n" instead of newlines on a number of occasions. I'd argue these behaviors are much more important than being…

Gemini doesn't seem to be trained on tool use (which Claude is) so it quiet often thinks it can't do something it certainly can and does a lot of nonsense. For me it fails nearly everytime while it's trying to read project files because it uses relative paths instead of absolute so I've put "For your "ReadFile" and "WriteFile" tool, you MUST use absolute paths to files" in my system instructions. Speaking of system i…

Codex doesn’t give feedback while it’s running. It just works quietly in a way that’s not easy to interrupt if you could see it going off the rails.

Claude is better at this.

Re: Run interactive commands in Gemini CLI

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Post by theshrike79 »

coderatlarge wrote: post #13

i’ve had little luck getting ai systems to correctly set up networking for a set of vms. they tend to go round and round with ip tables commands that don’t ultimately solve the problem. is config fundamentally harder than writing code ?

Did you give them a way to check the networking rules?

If not, the model is just shooting in the dark and guessing.

Re: Run interactive commands in Gemini CLI

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Post by selvan »

ffsm8 wrote: post #19
selvan wrote: post #18

From the blog " Gemini CLI spawns a new process within a pseudo-terminal in the background, leveraging the node-pty library...So how does this virtual terminal running in the background show up on your screen? Think of it like a video stream. Our new serializer takes a snapshot of the pseudo terminal at every moment—capturing every piece of text, every color, and even the cursor's position. These snapshots are then s…

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Thanks. Fixed it.

Re: Run interactive commands in Gemini CLI

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Post by rockwotj »

anp wrote: post #16
adastra22 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Idk, the more skilled I get with Claude Code, the less I use interactive workflows.

I tend to agree but there are a few scenarios where I really want it to work. Debuggers in particular seem hard to get right for the current agents. I’ve not been able to get the various MCP servers I’ve tried to work, I’ve struck out using the debug adapter protocol from agent-authored python. The best results I’ve gotten are from prompting it to run the debugger under screen, but it takes many tool calls to iterate…

I would love to use gdb through an agent instead of directly. I spend so much time looking up commands and I sometimes skip things because I get impatient stepping over the next thing

Re: Run interactive commands in Gemini CLI

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Post by lxgr »

sunaookami wrote: post #15
jasonjmcghee wrote: post #7

I've had a pretty poor experience with Gemini. I've had to convince it to do things it should just be able to do but thinks it can't for some reason. Like reading from a file outside of the project directory- it can do it fine, but refuses to unless you convince it that no it actually can. Also has inserted "\n" instead of newlines on a number of occasions. I'd argue these behaviors are much more important than being…

Gemini doesn't seem to be trained on tool use (which Claude is) so it quiet often thinks it can't do something it certainly can and does a lot of nonsense. For me it fails nearly everytime while it's trying to read project files because it uses relative paths instead of absolute so I've put "For your "ReadFile" and "WriteFile" tool, you MUST use absolute paths to files" in my system instructions. Speaking of system i…

Gemini seems to have a poor model of both what it can and what it is allowed to do.

I’ve noticed the latter with several image generation refusals I could eventually easily talk them out of (usually by mentioning fair use in a copyright/trademark context).

Re: Run interactive commands in Gemini CLI

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Post by thallavajhula »

Aside: The demo shows git commands being run in the CLI. I absolutely hate it when devs use a commit message that says "chore: my first commit from gemini cli" - I get that it's meant for the demo, but in general too, I've seen codebases that enforce these commit prefixes such as "chore", "feat", "bugfix" etc. Is there any real value to that? Besides wasting up the 50 character limit on the first line of the commit message, I don't see anything else being done including those. Also, non-imperative commit messages?! Come on, guys!

Re: Run interactive commands in Gemini CLI

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Post by arjie »

It was very buggy for me. You kind of have to coax it into interactive use and then some of the time it got stuck pondering once I exited the app flow and returned to the Gemini CLI (not with Ctrl-F, full exit, it closes the TUI window). It's also super laggy.

To be honest, at this point having Claude Code monitor the output of a `tmux pipe-pane` is probably going to be superior.

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