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Re: Gemini CLI GitHub Actions

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Post by grogenaut »

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.

if it's not trustworthy just fork the doc and let people try it and then copy paste back in...

instead I'm just pulling it out to other tools and using markdown import. I'm basically moving away from using google docs because of these issues.

Re: Gemini CLI GitHub Actions

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Post by DonHopkins »

danudey wrote: post #68
gexla wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My take on this is that Google has a bunch of "incubating" spaces where they have teams of people building things that may or may not take off. So, when something does take off, it sort of becomes a victim of its own success. It confuses people because it's not a "core" Google product that fits nicely among other Google products. NotebookLLM seems to be another example. Personally, I would rather Google did this sort…

The teams of people want to get their work out into the public to make a big splash so they can get a sweet bonus before anyone realizes that it's not actually useful or effective. See also: Google Wave, and 80% of their other products. They don't get a sweet bonus and promotion for helping another team improve a product, so why collaborate? Just create your own chat app according to your own team's vision/goals/avai…

This will explain everything you need to know about Google Wave:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z4RKRLaSug

Re: Gemini CLI GitHub Actions

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Post by DonHopkins »

staunton wrote: post #60
Workaccount2 wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be fair, the "Hello Vasco" is a generated background image and not part of the chat context. But still, you would think they would put your name in the system prompt.

> you would think they would put your name in the system prompt They probably do, along with "pretend to not have any personal information about the user".

That's what they tried with HAL-9000, and remember what happened!

Re: Gemini CLI GitHub Actions

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Post by insane_dreamer »

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 tried Gemini for gDrive to find some files and it was useless.

I tried it in Slides to generate some slides from text, it was useless.

I tried having it produce a plot for me in Sheets and it was useless. (It does look up documentation but I could already do that.)

I haven't found any useful feature for it in Google Workplace; but I do get AI summaries of everything now, which I don't need and have to keep dismissing.

I haven't yet used it in Google Docs -- it's probably decent there for writing.

Re: Gemini CLI GitHub Actions

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Post by cpursley »

barrkel wrote: post #40
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…

Jules works in a VM, asynchronously, on a separate checkout of the code. Gemini CLI works synchronously with the user (unless you YOLO) and in your own directory on your own machine on your own checkout. Two different modalities.

Jules can't even get past a basic-ass "npm build" script that works both on my mac and in a docker container". Are they running a Windows NT VM or something?

Re: Gemini CLI GitHub Actions

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Post by bionhoward »

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…

AI studio has humans reading all your work tho, that’s not acceptable for many use cases

Re: Gemini CLI GitHub Actions

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Post by myko »

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…

Jules is for hobbyists / vibe coding, Gemini CLI is for developers in a team.
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