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Re: Gemini CLI

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Post by frollogaston »

rs186 wrote: post #806
frollogaston wrote: post #770

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They wrote the CLI "GUI" in React using ink, which is all JS-only. I don't know what the Golang way of doing this would be, but maybe it's harder if you want the same result.

There are many GUI building libraries in Go. Sure, you wouldn't be writing JSX (and I agree it's an interesting idea), but it doesn't mean it's more any work to get things rendered in a terminal with other approaches, especially with these AI assistants to help you finish the boring parts.

If the UI is complicated at all, React is a well-established way to do that easily. The one-off tools will be harder, and even the AI won't know them as well as it knows React.

Re: Gemini CLI

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Post by tealpod »

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.

Two weeks back I made a simple wrapper CLI app for GEMINI https://geni.dev.

I strongly believe in AI cli apps for devs, congrats.

Re: Gemini CLI

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Post by yencabulator »

sameermanek wrote: post #373

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…

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Re: Gemini CLI

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Post by flashgordon »

Il be honest I loved AI-studio - it felt like almost unlimited quota. With CLI it is unbeleivablly slow even for simple tasks (compared to claude code) and the "free" seems to be a totally deceptive marketing. Even with an API key (on the free tier) I am no way close to getting the promised free 60 requests a minute worth of usage that was promised and still am getting rate limited. What gives?

Re: Gemini CLI

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Post by edg5000 »

jjice wrote: post #361
joshvm wrote: post #337

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Gemini has some fun failure modes. It gets "frustrated" when changes it makes doesn't work, and replies with oddly human phrases like "Well, that was unexpected" and then happily declares that (I see the issue!) "the final tests will pass" when it's going down a blind alley. It's extremely overconfident by default and much more exclamatory without changing the system prompt. Maybe in training it was taught/figured ou…

It also gets really down on itself, which is pretty funny (and a little scary). Aside from the number of people who've posted online about it wanting to uninstall itself after being filled with shame, I had it get confused on some Node module resolution stuff yesterday and it told me it was deeply sorry for wasting my time and that I didn't deserve to have such a useless assistant. Out of curiosity, I told it that I…

This really cracked me up, indeed mostly funny and maybe slightly scary or at least off-putting that it's so human-like.

Re: Gemini CLI

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Post by edg5000 »

meetpateltech wrote: post #46

Key highlights from blog post and GitHub repo: - Open-source (Apache 2.0, same as OpenAI Codex) - 1M token context window - Free tier: 60 requests per minute and 1,000 requests per day (requires Google account authentication) - Higher limits via Gemini API or Vertex AI - Google Search grounding support - Plugin and script support (MCP servers) - Gemini.md file for memory instruction - VS Code integration (Gemini Code…

This sounds like it's practically unlimited and free? A bit like GMail. It is comes to close to Claude Code they may overtake them and dominate the market simply with their tried and true "give it away for free forever with practially no limits" strategy. I pay 20$ for Claude Code, which is nothing in relation to the value it provides, but obviously a 0$ price point will get you a bigger piece of the Pie. Big Oof for Anthropic. Kinda lame that they can just copy a new and innovative company and undersell at a price point of 0$. Not that I'm cheering for Anthropic either; I'd much rather own my sillicon.

Re: Gemini CLI

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Post by edg5000 »

About the data being sent to Google thing; one thing I noticed today with Claude Code it that it ran "cat" on my public key but it ran "head -n 5" on my private key (e.g. it avoids reading my private keys fully) (I was having it diagnose SSH issues; not thinking about key leakage actually. Good job Anthropic for not sending my key to the US! +1 for team Claude!

Re: Gemini CLI

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Post by tvshtr »

asadm wrote: post #530
tvshtr wrote: post #217

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Depends on the language. It has some bugs where it replaces some words with Unicode symbols like ©. And is completely oblivious to it even when pointed out.

did you face this in the aistudio ui by any chance? i have seen it there.

Ive seen it both in the Studio and via API, with various character replacements. It's weird, it's like its own dialect, the character usually corresponds to the word (or part od it) being replaced.

Re: Gemini CLI

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Post by casey2 »

Be sure that literally anything this program touches, and it'll be more than you think it does, will be sent to google.
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