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Re: Gemini CLI

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Post by GenerWork »

cperry wrote: post #41

Hi - I work on this. Uptake is a steep curve right now, spare a thought for the TPUs today. Appreciate all the takes so far, the team is reading this thread for feedback. Feel free to pile on with bugs or feature requests we'll all be reading.

I'm just a hobbyist, but I keep getting the error "The code change produced by Gemini cannot be automatically applied. You can manually apply the change or ask Gemini to try again". I assume this is because the service is being slammed?

Edit: I should mention that I'm accessing this through Gemini Code Assist, so this may be something out of your wheelhouse.

Re: Gemini CLI

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Post by mike_hearn »

clbrmbr wrote: post #54
i_love_retros wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This isn't about quality products, it's about being able to say you have a CLI tool because the other ai companies have one

Fast following is a reasonable strategy. Anthropic provided the existence proof. It’s an immensely useful form factor for AI.

The question is whether what makes it useful is actually being in the terminal (limited, glitchy, awkward interaction) or whether it's being able to run next to files on a remote system. I suspect the latter.

Re: Gemini CLI

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Post by indigodaddy »

peterldowns wrote: post #195
danavar wrote: post #183

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there a way to instantly, quickly prompt it in the terminal, without loading the full UI? Just to get a short response without filling the terminal page. like to just get a short response - for simple things like "what's a nm and grep command to find this symbol in these 3 folders". I use gemini alot for this type of thing already Or would that have to be a custom prompt I write?

I use `mods` for this https://github.com/charmbracelet/mods other people use simon willison's `llm` tool https://github.com/simonw/llm Both allow you to switch between models, send short prompts from a CLI, optionally attach some context. I prefer mods because it's an easier install and I never need to worry about Python envs and other insanity.

Didn't know about mods, looks awesome.

Re: Gemini CLI

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Post by cperry »

GenerWork wrote: post #201
cperry wrote: post #41

Hi - I work on this. Uptake is a steep curve right now, spare a thought for the TPUs today. Appreciate all the takes so far, the team is reading this thread for feedback. Feel free to pile on with bugs or feature requests we'll all be reading.

I'm just a hobbyist, but I keep getting the error "The code change produced by Gemini cannot be automatically applied. You can manually apply the change or ask Gemini to try again". I assume this is because the service is being slammed? Edit: I should mention that I'm accessing this through Gemini Code Assist, so this may be something out of your wheelhouse.

odd, haven't seen that one - you might file an issue https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/issues

I don't think that's capacity, you should see error codes.

Re: Gemini CLI

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Post by fooster »

tarvaina wrote: post #125
behnamoh wrote: post #67

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Actually, that's the reason a lot of startups and solo developers prefer non-Google solutions, even though the quality of Gemini 2.5 Pro is insanely high. The Google Cloud Dashboard is a mess, and they haven't fixed it in years. They have Vertex that is supposed to host some of their models, but I don't understand what's the difference between that and their own cloud. And then you have two different APIs depending o…

It took me a while but I think the difference between Vertex and Gemini APIs is that Vertex is meant for existing GCP users and Gemini API for everyone else. If you are already using GCP then Vertex API works like everything else there. If you are not, then Gemini API is much easier. But they really should spell it out, currently it's really confusing. Also they should make it clearer which SDKs, documents, pricing,…

The other difference is that reliability for the gemini api is garbage, whereas for vertex ai it is fantastic.

Re: Gemini CLI

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Post by cperry »

danavar wrote: post #183
cperry wrote: post #41

Hi - I work on this. Uptake is a steep curve right now, spare a thought for the TPUs today. Appreciate all the takes so far, the team is reading this thread for feedback. Feel free to pile on with bugs or feature requests we'll all be reading.

Is there a way to instantly, quickly prompt it in the terminal, without loading the full UI? Just to get a short response without filling the terminal page. like to just get a short response - for simple things like "what's a nm and grep command to find this symbol in these 3 folders". I use gemini alot for this type of thing already Or would that have to be a custom prompt I write?

-p is your friend

Re: Gemini CLI

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Post by ethbr1 »

Workaccount2 wrote: post #114
__MatrixMan__ wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Anthropic is the same. Unless it has changed within the last few months, you can subscribe to Claude but if you want to use Claude Code it'll come out of your "API usage" bucket which is billed separately than the subscription. Some jerk has learned that we prefer CLI things and has come to the conclusion that we should therefore pay extra for them. Workaround is to use their GUI with some MCPs but I dislike it becau…

I think it is pretty clear that these $20/subs are loss leaders, and really only meant to get regular people to really start leaning on LLMs. Once they are hooked, we will see what the actual price of using so much compute is. I would imagine right now they are pricing their APIs either at cost or slightly below.

Or they're planning on the next wave of optimized hardware cutting inference costs.

Re: Gemini CLI

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Post by taupi »

cperry wrote: post #41

Hi - I work on this. Uptake is a steep curve right now, spare a thought for the TPUs today. Appreciate all the takes so far, the team is reading this thread for feedback. Feel free to pile on with bugs or feature requests we'll all be reading.

Right now authentication doesn't work if you're working on a remote machine and try to authenticate with Google, FYI. You need an alternate auth flow that gives the user a link and lets them paste a key in (this is how Claude Code does it).

Re: Gemini CLI

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Post by tvshtr »

wohoef wrote: post #135

A few days ago I tested Claude Code by completely vibe coding a simple stock tracker web app in streamlit python. It worked incredibly well, until it didn't. Seems like there is a critical project size where it just can't fix bugs anymore. Just tried this with Gemini CLI and the critical project size it works well for seems to be quite a bit bigger. Where claude code started to get lost, I simply told Gemini CLI to "…

Yeah, and it's variable, can happen at 250k, 500k or later. When you interrogate it; usually the issue comes to it being laser focused or stuck on one specific issue, and it's very hard to turn it around. For the lack of the better comparison it feels like the AI is on a spectrum...
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