I love how fragmented Google's Gemini offerings are. I'm a Pro subscriber, but I now learn I should be a "Gemini Code Assist Standard or Enterprise" user to get additional usage. I didn't even know that existed! As a run of the mill Google user I get a generous usage tier but paying them specifically for "Gemini" doesn't get me anything when it comes to "Gemini CLI". Delightful!
by iandanforth 2 minutes ago
I actually had this exact same question when I read the docs, made an issue about it:
https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/issues/1427 by gavinray 0 minutes ago
There's also $300/mo AI ULTRA membership. It's interesting. Google One memberships even can't detail what "extra features" I can have, because it possibly changes every hour or so.
by bayindirh 1 minute ago
> That’s why we’re introducing Gemini CLI
Definitely not because of Claude Code eating our lunch! by ed_mercer 11 minutes ago
And since they have essentially unlimited money they can offer a lot for free/cheaply, until all competitors die out, and then they can crank up the prices
by troupo 4 minutes ago
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.
by ZeroCool2u 1 minute ago
I have been using this for about a month and it’s a beast, mostly thanks to 2.5pro being SOTA and also how it leverages that huge 1M context window. Other tools either preemptively compress context or try to read files partially.
I have thrown very large codebases at this and it has been able to navigate and learn them effortlessly. by asadm 4 minutes ago
When I was using it in cursor recently, I found it would break imports in large python files. Claude never did this. Do you have any weird issues using Gemini? I’m excited to try the cli today
by zackify 3 minutes ago
Hope this will pressure Anthropic into releasing Claude Code as open source.
by lherron 5 minutes ago
What’s neat is we can proxy requests from Gemini or fork it with only replacing the api call layer so it can be used with local models!!!
by zackify 2 minutes ago
As a heavy Claude code user that's not really a selling point for me
Ultimately quality wins out with LLMs. Having switched a lot between openai, google and Claude, I feel there's essentially 0 switching cost and you very quickly get to feel which is the best. So until Claude has a solid competitor I'll use it, open source or not by willsmith72 2 minutes ago
Link of announcement blog post: https://blog.google/technology/developers/introducing-gemini...
by thor-rodrigues 27 minutes ago
I neeeed this google login method in sst's opencode now haha
by rhodysurf 2 minutes ago
symptomatic of Google's lack of innovation and pm's rushing to copy competitor products
better question is why do you need a modle specific CLI when you should be able to plug in to individual models. by htrp 9 minutes ago
Aider is what you want for that.
by jvanderbot 8 minutes ago
check out opencode by sst
by wagslane 6 minutes ago
These always contain easter eggs. I got some swag from Claude Code, and as suspected, Gemini CLI includes `/corgi` to activate corgi mode.
by sync 25 minutes ago
They sent you swag in the mail? How did that work?
by GavCo 7 minutes ago
The killer feature of Claude Code is that you can just pay for Max and not worry about API billing. It lets me use it pretty much all the time without stressing over every penny or checking the billing page.
Until they do that - I'm sticking with Claude.
by poszlem 8 minutes ago
Same. Generally i really prefer Claude Code's UX (CLI based, permissions, etc) - it's all generally close to right for me, but not perfect.
However i didn't use Claude Code before the Max plan because i just fret about some untrusted AI going ham on some stupid logic and burning credits.
If it's dumb on Max i don't mind, just some time wasted. If it's dumb on credits, i just paid for throw away work. Mentally it's just too much overhead for me as i end up worrying about Claude's journey, not just the destination. And the journey is often really bad, even for Claude. by unshavedyak 1 minute ago
No per-token billing here either: "...we offer the industry’s largest allowance: 60 model requests per minute and 1,000 requests per day at no charge."
https://blog.google/technology/developers/introducing-gemini... by jedi3335 1 minute ago
That's a golden cage though.
I'm happy I can switch models as I like with Aider. The top models from different companies see different things in my experiences and have their own strengths and weaknesses. by therealmarv 2 minutes ago
How does that compare to using aider with Claude models?
by mhb 6 minutes ago