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Here's the system prompt, rendered as a Gist: https://gist.github.com/simonw/9e5f13665b3112cea00035df7da69... More of my notes here: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/25/gemini-cli/
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On the one hand, yes this has obviously high immediate value; on the other hand, I can't help but feel like you are giving access to multiple tools that can be used for arbitrary code execution anyway (i.e. running tests, installing dependencies, or running any linter that has a plugin system...), so blacklisting `git --exec-path=/bin/sh` for example is... Misguided? You would have a better time containing the agent…
It’s not misguided. The goal isn’t prefect security, the goal is mitigating risk and collaborating with cross functional security, compliance, platform, operations, etc… teams. Use Jules, also by Google if you need what you describe.
Gemini is by far the most confusing product of all time. The paid version for it is available in 3 forms: 1. Gemini pro (which gets you more google drive storage and some form of access to veo so people obviously get that) 2. Google AI studio, just to piss off redmond devs and which is used by no one outside google 3. This CLI, which has its own plan. Then there are 3rd party channels, if you have a recent samsung ph…
I think AI studio is the best form factor and cheapest?
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People said the same thing about shopping at walmart instead of locally.
Isn't that as toxic? I've read a bunch about Walmart and the whole thing is basically a scam. They get a ton of tax incentives, subsidies, etc to build shoddy infrastructure that can only be used for big box stores (pretty much), so the end cost for Walmart to build their stores is quite low. They promise to employ lots of locals, but many of those jobs are intentionally paid so low that they're not actually living w…
Walmart spread so successfully precisely because so many people immediately started shopping there for all of the basics.
Ugh, I really wish this had been written in Go or Rust. Just something that produces a single binary executable and doesn't require you to install a runtime like Node.
Ask Gemini CLI to re-write itself in your preferred language
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Isn't that as toxic? I've read a bunch about Walmart and the whole thing is basically a scam. They get a ton of tax incentives, subsidies, etc to build shoddy infrastructure that can only be used for big box stores (pretty much), so the end cost for Walmart to build their stores is quite low. They promise to employ lots of locals, but many of those jobs are intentionally paid so low that they're not actually living w…
Integrated local stores are better for pretty much everything except for actually having what you want in stock. There is a reason why rural communities welcome Wal-Mart with open arms. Not such a big deal now that you can mail-order anything more-or-less instantly, but back in the 80s when I was growing up in BFE, Wal-Mart was a godsend.
It may have shifted where people buy things they can wait for, but for weekly shopping I don’t think it has.
Ugh, I really wish this had been written in Go or Rust. Just something that produces a single binary executable and doesn't require you to install a runtime like Node.
Language choice is orthogonal to distribution strategy. You can make single-file builds of JavaScript (or Python or anything) programs! It's just a matter of packaging, and there are packaging solutions for both Bun and Node. Don't blame the technology for people choosing not to use it.
Btw, the largest deps in this are React and Open Telemetry.
Can't we standardize on AGENTS.md instead of all these specific CLAUDE.md and now GEMINI.md. I just symlink now to AGENTS.md
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I believe Workspace users have to pay a separate subscription to use the Gemini CLI, the so-called “Gemini for Google Cloud”, which starts at an additional 19 dollars per month [^1]. If that’s really the case, it’s very disappointing to me. I expected access to Gemini CLI to be included in the normal Workspace subscription. [^1]: https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/product/google/...
So to be clear (this isn't your fault of course, this is a Google problem), as someone with my own domain for my email: * First google forced me to start paying for my email domain. * Then they increased the cost to force me to pay for AI features * Now, I can't actually use the AI features without spending even more money, I could use them if I just had a gmail address and didn't pay google. Well done Google, you've…
Do you mean that they stopped offering the legacy free tier and you had to upgrade to a paid plan? If that's the case, they reverted their decision and it was possible to go back to the free tier. I don't know if it is still possible, as this was 3 years ago, but here's a thread outlining how to do it. https://www.reddit.com/r/gsuitelegacymigration/comments/urky...
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I have nothing against npm, but having a single binary would've been a lot more trivial and convenient. Codex is heading in that direction, and I hope others do too.
I don't see how it can get more trivial and convenient than npm install -g @google/gemini-cli then having a gemini command line app. I mean, I guess if you don't have node installed, but it's so prevalent in so many tools it's a reasonable thing to require. Piping a downloaded shell script to bash seems pretty much the same effort.
It would be much better if I didn’t have to reinstall it every time I change Node versions.