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Re: Gemini CLI GitHub Actions

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Post by moltar »

grogenaut wrote: post #64

I understand Google feels they need to compete in coding AI. The crazy thing to me is: - Gemini can't make me a calendar appointment between myself and another person for 30 minutes in the next week. Heck it can't make appointments yet. - it can't edit or collaborate on Google docs, just insert. I edit my docs in cline or Claude code as markdown and upload. - speaking of, I don't think they have a MCP for working wit…

Totally agree. It’s so surprising that I spent almost an hour trying to figure out how to make Gemini collaborate with me on a Google Document as a kind of artifact. I was sure I was just holding it wrong. I couldn’t believe it wasn’t a feature. Even when I gave up I was still unsure if maybe my account isn’t on the right tier or something.

Re: Gemini CLI GitHub Actions

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Post by thewebguyd »

pphysch wrote: post #74
grogenaut wrote: post #64

I understand Google feels they need to compete in coding AI. The crazy thing to me is: - Gemini can't make me a calendar appointment between myself and another person for 30 minutes in the next week. Heck it can't make appointments yet. - it can't edit or collaborate on Google docs, just insert. I edit my docs in cline or Claude code as markdown and upload. - speaking of, I don't think they have a MCP for working wit…

> Heck it can't make appointments yet. - it can't edit or collaborate on Google docs, just insert. I'm sure it's capable of doing those things, but they have it turned off because of the significant risks involved in automatically editing important documents like that.

I suspect this is the case, much like with Apple Intelligence as well. Case in point, see the early Apple notification summaries of text messages. "Mom: That hike killed me!" AI Summary: "Mom died on hike."

All it needs though is a sandbox to execute the action in, and an approval flow for the user to review the changes the agent wants to make, or make revisions. Why does it have to be all or nothing? "Hey Google, schedule a meeting with x for next week when we are both available" "Google: OK, here's a preview of the calendar invite - do you want me to send it, or make changes, or cancel?"

Re: Gemini CLI GitHub Actions

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Post by schainks »

grogenaut wrote: post #64

I understand Google feels they need to compete in coding AI. The crazy thing to me is: - Gemini can't make me a calendar appointment between myself and another person for 30 minutes in the next week. Heck it can't make appointments yet. - it can't edit or collaborate on Google docs, just insert. I edit my docs in cline or Claude code as markdown and upload. - speaking of, I don't think they have a MCP for working wit…

I 100% agree with this, and there are just _so many use cases_ that are small and useful like this.

Heck, just yesterday my partner forgot the grocery list printout so I took a picture of it and asked gemini to convert it to a format where I could copy and paste it to a specific todo list app that was already shared with her. INSTEAD, Gemini dumped the list into Google Keep, albeit with terrible formatting. Didn't miss a single item, but did not recognize categories of item (produce vs frozen food, for example)

So my read on it is there's a lot of "rough around the edges" use cases which can be tidied with better prompting/context or just Gemini team prioritizing those things when they get around to it.

What they actually _need_ is a marketing team showing off useful applications of the releases more often. OpenAI is ALL OVER TIKTOK and people I meet under 30 on that platform don't even know gemini exists. In my experience, Gemini is better than chatGPT at everything you need to do, and it can do the things that the OpenAI marketing people are constantly showing off on TikTok.

Re: Gemini CLI GitHub Actions

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Post by machiaweliczny »

grogenaut wrote: post #64

I understand Google feels they need to compete in coding AI. The crazy thing to me is: - Gemini can't make me a calendar appointment between myself and another person for 30 minutes in the next week. Heck it can't make appointments yet. - it can't edit or collaborate on Google docs, just insert. I edit my docs in cline or Claude code as markdown and upload. - speaking of, I don't think they have a MCP for working wit…

There's a need for better indexing. Seems like they switched search to pure embeddings and it doesn't work. Making performant hybrid search is hard in the sense that you cannot combine indexes. Ideally something like embedding, text match and quality vector. I had PoC that worked great when using those but making it scale is hard with reasonable latency.

If something like this exist please educate me as this would make tons of products better.

Re: Gemini CLI GitHub Actions

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Post by elpakal »

ants_everywhere wrote: post #24
thecupisblue wrote: post #8

Wait, is this CLI or is this a github action or is this a github application? Also, I thought Jules was the "coding agent" they are working on. Now this is taking it over or is this like another case of Google self-competing? Someone needs to take charge at this company with a strong vision, because they are all over the place and spreading themselves thin, which in turn spreads thin the customer/brand equity. At thi…

gemini-cli is a command line tool that calls Gemini and shells out to common text utilities and MCP for tool use. This appears to just be a plugin where you do things on GitHub, that sends out notifications to gemini-cli running on cloud, then gemini-cli responds and sends notifications back. Basically just saving you the hassle of cloning at a specific commit, calling gemini-cli manually, and then uploading the resu…

100. That's essentially the function of a GH Action, which is why I'm also confused by the pomp and circumstance of the announcement.

Now if they could get Gemini (the LLM) to run on a GH Actions runner I'd be more excited.

Re: Gemini CLI GitHub Actions

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Post by stabbles »

hotfixguru wrote: post #38

I find their image text for the third image in the carousel funny: > Delegate work with an "@ mini-cli" tag and the agent can complete a range of tasks, from writing bugs to fixing bugs

Surprisingly it's not fixed in the meantime. Maybe they were being honest.

Re: Gemini CLI GitHub Actions

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Post by PanMan »

The setup for this is So confusing. I had cursor bugbot (and copilot, but that's github themselves) where it was just a few clicks. Here it's a command line tool you can install in github but you also need a google cloud project?

Re: Gemini CLI GitHub Actions

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Post by grogenaut »

pmcf wrote: post #80
grogenaut wrote: post #64

I understand Google feels they need to compete in coding AI. The crazy thing to me is: - Gemini can't make me a calendar appointment between myself and another person for 30 minutes in the next week. Heck it can't make appointments yet. - it can't edit or collaborate on Google docs, just insert. I edit my docs in cline or Claude code as markdown and upload. - speaking of, I don't think they have a MCP for working wit…

I think Google doesn’t turn Gemini loose on docs the same reason Apple doesn’t turn AI loose on your phone. It’s just not reliable enough to let 99.99% of the world use it. Those of us on the bleeding edge have been fine tweaking and working with inconsistencies. If you put a lot of work in, you get a productivity boost. Think of the family member you are “tech support” for. (You know who you are) would you recommend…

I get your point, it's sad. But your family memeber isn't hooking a docs MCP up to an AI and doing things. Docs also has history, I can just undo the dumb crap it would do.

In the meanwhile the rest of us are running around with a pole that has a chainsaw generator on it swinging it in every direction to solve problems. When I have these issues now I just have AI write tools to get around it. To search my email I just had ai crack my takeout files and look for the email. Was easier than figuring out the google product.

Re: Gemini CLI GitHub Actions

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Post by grogenaut »

james2doyle wrote: post #73
grogenaut wrote: post #64

I understand Google feels they need to compete in coding AI. The crazy thing to me is: - Gemini can't make me a calendar appointment between myself and another person for 30 minutes in the next week. Heck it can't make appointments yet. - it can't edit or collaborate on Google docs, just insert. I edit my docs in cline or Claude code as markdown and upload. - speaking of, I don't think they have a MCP for working wit…

I’ve actually been using Gemini on my phone to create appointments from details on my screen. For example, I have a delivery coming so there is an email with the date and time range. I can press and hold my power button and Gemini pops up. I press a button to use screen context. Then say, "put this in my calendar". Then it does. It isn’t perfect. Events that cross multiple days or odd location details in the descript…

google workspaces gemini web app keeps saying it can't alter my calendar

gemini in calendar says it can't alter my calendar

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