What engineering leaders and their teams report about Gemini CLI, with every finding tied to its evidence.
Read the findingsPractitioner sentiment, all practitioners
−3 Mixed from 64 sources that take a side
How this figure is madeFrom 62 authors in 56 discussions. Use a task pilot to measure accepted work and review time.
Jun 2025 to Oct 2026.
89 sources from practitioners, by month and sentiment.
76 independent accounts give an opinion, and the read among them is mixed. The open, extensible design and the large context window draw praise. Reliability draws the most concern, and Google's product direction comes second.
Positive, mixed and negative sources
The score counts them as 20 positive, 20 mixed and 22 negative votes, one per author. See How the numbers work.
See the evidenceBelow: 6 praise themes, 6 concerns, 1 close to agreement and 1 disagreement.
Counted for All practitioners, from 89 sources. Change group
Every capability practitioners describe positively, ranked by how many sources say so. Open one to read who said it.
Counted for All practitioners.
Mixed
rancar2, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash CyberHacker News comment
Says the default system prompt crippled Gemini CLI, but replacing it via a hidden environment variable with Claude Code style prompts made it far more capable.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; not counted, repeats a stronger account
Positive
SwellJoe, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Antigravity 2.0Hacker News comment
Calls the killed Gemini CLI a better product than its replacement, noting it had a security plugin and that Gemini models don't refuse security work via the API. Antigravity CLI 1.1.10, by contrast, refuses anything that smells even slightly of security.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; opinion; not counted, repeats a stronger account
Positive
Sakib Sadman Shajib, Developer with paid plans for Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI
I ported codex-plugin-cc to Gemini CLI, here's how ACP replaces App Server ProtocolPersonal blog post, DEV Community
Sakib Sadman Shajib keeps Claude Code as lead and hands whole-codebase investigation to Gemini CLI, porting codex-plugin-cc to drive Gemini through its ACP stdio mode with a persistent broker.
Practitioner account, self-described; ran the rollout; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Reliability, Operational control, Cost predictability and limits
Positive
chewz, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: How I code with AI on a budget/freeHacker News comment
Calls Codex through MCP from inside Gemini CLI and says it works like a charm; Gemini CLI runs mostly on Flash, which chewz finds good enough for framing problems and checking answers.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; not counted, repeats a stronger account
Positive
Simon Willison, Independent developer
Gemini CLIPersonal blog post, simonwillison.net
After early access Simon Willison calls Gemini CLI very good: it uses the million-token context, chooses well when to read files or run commands, and is open source under Apache 2.
Practitioner account, self-described; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Operational control, Cost predictability and limits
Mixed
netcommah, Reddit user
Anyone else shocked Google is already sunsetting Gemini CLI for "Antigravity"?Reddit post, r/Bard
Felt Gemini CLI was hitting its stride with MCP support and YOLO mode when Google announced the move to Antigravity CLI, and is shocked at the timing.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; opinion; not counted until substantiated
Positive
Owada Tomohiro, independent developer
I Rewrote Google's Gemini CLI in Go - 68x Faster StartupPersonal blog post, DEV Community
Owada Tomohiro measured Gemini CLI v0.22.2 at about 0.95 s to start and 10.9 s for a one-line prompt. Owada wrote a Go client for scripting while praising its TUI and MCP support.
Practitioner account, self-described; direct use; not counted, takes no position
Positive
mx-Liu123, author of AgentCommander
Comment on: Show HN: AgentCommander, workflow engine for evolutionary code optimizationHacker News comment
Chose Gemini CLI as their workflow engine's backend because it keeps each agent inside its directory, which mx-Liu123 could not do with Claude Code, and audits runs with gemini -r.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; ran the rollout; counts toward Adoption and upkeep
Positive
rane, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Show HN: Mysti, Claude, Codex, and Gemini debate your code, then synthesizeHacker News comment
When Claude Code gets stuck, rane has it consult Gemini through Gemini CLI, finding Gemini ahead of Opus on architectural reasoning and hard bugs.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; not counted, repeats a stronger account
Mixed
Facundo F, CTO at DeployHQ
Claude Code vs Codex CLI vs Gemini CLI (2026 Comparison)Company blog post, DeployHQ
Facundo F's comparison recommends Gemini CLI for solo developers or small teams on a budget (1,000 free daily requests), for staying current via Google Search grounding, and for enterprises needing Apache 2.0 transparency. Claude Code leads on complex multi-file changes and Codex on CI/CD integration.
"Claude Code for thoroughness and production-readiness, Codex CLI for speed and CI/CD-specific tasks, Gemini CLI for staying current and educational output…"
"…we ran three identical tasks across all three CLIs on the same Node.js project…"
Practitioner account, name and role on their organization's own page; structured test; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Operational control, Cost predictability and limits, Adoption and upkeep
Positive
Alexandre Touret, developer
Streamlining Development with Gemini CLI: A Hands-On ReviewPersonal blog post, Alexandre Touret's Blog
With Context7 and Playwright MCP servers, Touret had Gemini CLI upgrade a workshop Quarkus project to the latest LTS; one session showed 90 tool calls (83 successful), with many errors of its own making. Sees generated integration tests "in my view (AFAIK)" as scaffolding only.
Practitioner account, self-described; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Reliability, Cost predictability and limits, Adoption and upkeep
Counted for All practitioners.
Mixed
pid0x17, Hacker News commenter whose team moved from Gemini to Claude
Comment on: Ask HN: What default model do you use and why?Hacker News comment
After their team moved from Gemini to Claude, pid0x17 misses using Gemini CLI to explain a module and point out what to read before diving into the code.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; not counted, repeats a stronger account
Positive
Mohit Bhat, developer
Building a Web3 Camera That Proves Photos Are Real, Powered by Gemini CLIPersonal blog post (DEV writing challenge entry), DEV Community
After weeks with Gemini CLI on a Python, JavaScript and Solidity Web3 camera project, Bhat reports that a Filecoin integration that would have taken a full day took a couple of hours and a review caught a missed reentrancy issue. On the brand-new Filecoin Synapse SDK it sometimes produced outdated API signatures.
Practitioner account, self-described; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Reliability
Positive
Mitch Alderson, Render
Testing AI coding agents (2025): Cursor vs. Claude, OpenAI, and GeminiIndependent benchmark, Render engineering blog
Alderson had to guide Gemini CLI through every step of a new Next.js app (3/10, 7 follow-up error prompts), but in a large Go API monorepo it did a cron-scheduler refactor on the first try. It averaged 6.8, matching Claude Code, and Alderson would pick it with Cursor to outfit an engineering team.
"Gemini and Cursor did the best and would be my first choice if I was outfitting an engineering team."
"But once it was satisfied, it pulled off the refactor on the first try, with proper error handling and everything."
"I felt that I had to guide Gemini through every step of the process; it struggled with a few basic Node.js errors…"
Practitioner account; structured test; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Cost predictability and limits, Adoption and upkeep
Mixed
Peter Steinberger, independent developer
Peter Steinberger on XX post
Peter Steinberger finds Gemini CLI far faster than Claude Code at tracking down complex bugs because it reads 50 files at once. Steinberger uses it only to explain, since its edit tools are poor, and pastes the diagnosis into Claude to fix.
"Gemini CLI is superior to figuring out complex bugs, and WAY faster."
"I ask Gemini to explain only since it's edit tools are crap, the copy all text and paste it into a fresh claude session to fix."
"Claude slowly crawls from file to file to file to file, while gemini slurps up 50 files at once."
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes
Mixed
andrew_k, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025, an updateHacker News comment
Finds Gemini CLI close to Claude Code in experience and handy for code review and planning with its large context, but it goes off course when andrew_k accepts edits automatically.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; not counted, repeats a stronger account
Positive
wohoef, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Gemini CLIHacker News comment
Vibe coded a stock tracker with Claude Code until it hit what "seems like" a project size past which it can't fix bugs. With Gemini CLI that size "seems to be quite a bit bigger": told to analyze the codebase and fix all bugs, plus a few more prompts, it left the app working.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; not counted, repeats a stronger account
Positive
Simon Willison, Independent developer
Gemini CLIPersonal blog post, simonwillison.net
After early access Simon Willison calls Gemini CLI very good: it uses the million-token context, chooses well when to read files or run commands, and is open source under Apache 2.
Practitioner account, self-described; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Operational control, Cost predictability and limits
Positive
Sakib Sadman Shajib, Developer with paid plans for Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI
I ported codex-plugin-cc to Gemini CLI, here's how ACP replaces App Server ProtocolPersonal blog post, DEV Community
Sakib Sadman Shajib keeps Claude Code as lead and hands whole-codebase investigation to Gemini CLI, porting codex-plugin-cc to drive Gemini through its ACP stdio mode with a persistent broker.
Practitioner account, self-described; ran the rollout; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Reliability, Operational control, Cost predictability and limits
Mixed
SwiftAndDecisive, Reddit user
Should I switch from Gemini CLI to Antigravity for studying and light coding?Reddit post, r/Bard
Loves Gemini CLI for question-and-answer work over reference files and light debugging, but frequent Server Busy warnings have them weighing Antigravity for better uptime.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Reliability
Mixed
t1amat, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: GPT-5 for DevelopersHacker News comment
After provisioning their team on Claude Code, t1amat plans to move to Gemini Code Assist for half the price and longer context, once Gemini CLI gets first-party planning support.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; opinion; not counted, takes no position
Counted for All practitioners.
Positive, 9
Mixed
INTPenis, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Gemini CLI tips and tricks for agentic codingHacker News comment
Months of work use: GEMINI.md gets ignored and it hallucinates, but autonomously troubleshooting a Kubernetes cluster was the author's first fun AI experience.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Adoption and upkeep
Positive
Alexandre Touret, developer
Streamlining Development with Gemini CLI: A Hands-On ReviewPersonal blog post, Alexandre Touret's Blog
With Context7 and Playwright MCP servers, Touret had Gemini CLI upgrade a workshop Quarkus project to the latest LTS; one session showed 90 tool calls (83 successful), with many errors of its own making. Sees generated integration tests "in my view (AFAIK)" as scaffolding only.
Practitioner account, self-described; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Reliability, Cost predictability and limits, Adoption and upkeep
Positive
bsenftner, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Gemini CLIHacker News comment
After failing with GPT-4.1, the author pointed Gemini CLI at a Ruby project and got a working JavaScript conversion from one request in about five minutes.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes
Mixed
biimugan, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Plan mode is deadHacker News comment
Gemini CLI is their main agent at work, but plan mode cannot run even exploratory commands, so plans rest on whatever context biimugan supplies and often come out wrong.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; not counted, repeats a stronger account
Positive
Paulo Henrique, Developer who already uses Gemini CLI professionally
With Gemini CLI, I'm able to keep my pet projects alive and kickingPersonal blog post (DEV writing challenge entry), DEV Community
Paulo Henrique revived two side projects by running Gemini CLI on a second monitor against a plan file and GEMINI.md rules. The author likens it to a junior dev that can act unasked and loop.
Practitioner account, self-described; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Reliability, Operational control
Positive
macNchz, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Claude Opus 4.5Hacker News comment
On the day macNchz wrote, Gemini 3 in Gemini CLI fixed in about one shot a set of bugs Claude Code could not. The user macNchz argues the best agent depends on the language, the tooling, and the person.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; not counted, repeats a stronger account
Positive
Mitch Alderson, Render
Testing AI coding agents (2025): Cursor vs. Claude, OpenAI, and GeminiIndependent benchmark, Render engineering blog
Alderson had to guide Gemini CLI through every step of a new Next.js app (3/10, 7 follow-up error prompts), but in a large Go API monorepo it did a cron-scheduler refactor on the first try. It averaged 6.8, matching Claude Code, and Alderson would pick it with Cursor to outfit an engineering team.
"Gemini and Cursor did the best and would be my first choice if I was outfitting an engineering team."
"But once it was satisfied, it pulled off the refactor on the first try, with proper error handling and everything."
"I felt that I had to guide Gemini through every step of the process; it struggled with a few basic Node.js errors…"
Practitioner account; structured test; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Cost predictability and limits, Adoption and upkeep
Positive
David Eastman, The New Stack contributor
Expectations for Agentic Coding Tools: Testing Gemini CLIIndependent hands-on review, The New Stack
David Eastman's JSON merge test came out fully correct and faster than Codex; David Eastman faulted the default of no sandbox and switched on macOS Seatbelt before working.
Practitioner account, self-described; structured test; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Operational control, Cost predictability and limits, Adoption and upkeep
Positive
wohoef, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Gemini CLIHacker News comment
Vibe coded a stock tracker with Claude Code until it hit what "seems like" a project size past which it can't fix bugs. With Gemini CLI that size "seems to be quite a bit bigger": told to analyze the codebase and fix all bugs, plus a few more prompts, it left the app working.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; not counted, repeats a stronger account
Mixed or negative, 2
Mixed
t1amat, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: GPT-5 for DevelopersHacker News comment
After provisioning their team on Claude Code, t1amat plans to move to Gemini Code Assist for half the price and longer context, once Gemini CLI gets first-party planning support.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; opinion; not counted, takes no position
Negative
Dazzling-Delay8124, Reddit user
Gemini Code Assist much better then Gemini CLIReddit post, r/Bard
On the same model, the Code Assist IDE extension solves problems in one pass while Gemini CLI gets stuck in loops searching directories.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Reliability
Counted for All practitioners.
Positive, 7
Positive
pqs, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Google's Antigravity bait and switchHacker News comment
Prefers Gemini CLI next to VS Code over the Antigravity IDE and says it works like a charm; pqs plans the same setup with Antigravity CLI.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; not counted, takes no position
Positive
TobinCavanaugh, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026Hacker News comment
Uses Gemini CLI a lot and prefers it beside their own editor over a full AI IDE, suggesting that preference explains others' dislike of the move to Antigravity.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; not counted, takes no position
Positive
David Eastman, The New Stack contributor
Expectations for Agentic Coding Tools: Testing Gemini CLIIndependent hands-on review, The New Stack
David Eastman's JSON merge test came out fully correct and faster than Codex; David Eastman faulted the default of no sandbox and switched on macOS Seatbelt before working.
Practitioner account, self-described; structured test; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Operational control, Cost predictability and limits, Adoption and upkeep
Positive
Paulo Henrique, Developer who already uses Gemini CLI professionally
With Gemini CLI, I'm able to keep my pet projects alive and kickingPersonal blog post (DEV writing challenge entry), DEV Community
Paulo Henrique revived two side projects by running Gemini CLI on a second monitor against a plan file and GEMINI.md rules. The author likens it to a junior dev that can act unasked and loop.
Practitioner account, self-described; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Reliability, Operational control
Positive
Owada Tomohiro, independent developer
I Rewrote Google's Gemini CLI in Go - 68x Faster StartupPersonal blog post, DEV Community
Owada Tomohiro measured Gemini CLI v0.22.2 at about 0.95 s to start and 10.9 s for a one-line prompt. Owada wrote a Go client for scripting while praising its TUI and MCP support.
Practitioner account, self-described; direct use; not counted, takes no position
Mixed
mattnewton, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Jules, remote coding agent from Google Labs, announces APIHacker News comment
Says Gemini CLI was rough at launch and has improved a lot, but Claude Code improved too, so mattnewton never switched.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; opinion; not counted, takes no position
Positive
Simon Willison, Independent developer
Gemini CLIPersonal blog post, simonwillison.net
After early access Simon Willison calls Gemini CLI very good: it uses the million-token context, chooses well when to read files or run commands, and is open source under Apache 2.
Practitioner account, self-described; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Operational control, Cost predictability and limits
Mixed or negative, 13
Mixed
biimugan, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Plan mode is deadHacker News comment
Gemini CLI is their main agent at work, but plan mode cannot run even exploratory commands, so plans rest on whatever context biimugan supplies and often come out wrong.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; not counted, repeats a stronger account
Mixed
mattrohland, GitHub user describing their company's Code Assist setup
Alternate means of specifying GCP project for enterprise users (not GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT)GitHub issue
Because Code Assist is enabled on one project at their company, developers switch GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT between gcloud work and Gemini CLI, which mattrohland says confuses them.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Adoption and upkeep
Mixed
VirtualArcher (Ivan), engineer at DZ BANK
2.5 minute delay on startup downloading ripgrep due to proxyGitHub issue
Behind their organization's proxy, Gemini CLI blocked for about 2.5 minutes at startup downloading ripgrep, with no progress shown, which VirtualArcher reports held up many colleagues.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Reliability
Negative
lazarie, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Run interactive commands in Gemini CLIHacker News comment
On a paid Google Business account, lazarie hit 429 errors after one to five short messages, reviewing three files of 50 to 100 lines. Found sign-in far harder than Codex or Claude Code.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Cost predictability and limits
Mixed
PatelPratikkumar, Gemini CLI user
Auth_Personal type even with Enterprise Standard SubscriptionGitHub issue
On a paid Code Assist Standard subscription, Gemini CLI kept falling back to Flash and told PatelPratikkumar to buy the subscription they already had; signing in required a Cloud project variable.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Operational control, Cost predictability and limits, Adoption and upkeep
Mixed
CGamesPlay, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Gemini CLIHacker News comment
After a day of use, judged it a bit worse than Claude Code: slower, with a fake progress indicator and permission approvals broader than wanted.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Operational control
Mixed
nitin-stockypro, GitHub user
Small one-to-three-file edits left Gemini CLI stuck for minutes, and a simple question about the active model took about 13 to 14 minutes to answer.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Reliability
Negative
mmaunder, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: GPT-5.2Hacker News comment
Gemini 3 fixed a major bug in ten minutes and briefly became the daily driver, but a week of ignored instructions and poor observability sent the author back to Codex.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes
Mixed
boole1854, Senior-level developer (self-described)
Comment on: Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-MaxHacker News comment
In same-prompt comparisons, Codex produced the better plan and implementation; Gemini 3 Pro wrote more readable code but hallucinated column names and skipped requirements.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; structured test; counts toward Delivered outcomes
Negative
Peter Steinberger, independent developer
Peter Steinberger on XX post
A month later Peter Steinberger reports that he uses Gemini less and less because its edit tools are too messy, and that GPT-5 reviews plans better than Gemini.
"Gemini can be great, but it's edit tools are too messy, so using it less and less. GPT-5 for reviewing plans works even better than Gemini."
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; not counted, repeats a stronger account
Mixed
Adam Conway, XDA's Lead Technical Editor, BSc in Computer Science
I tried out Google's new Gemini CLI, and my code gave it an existential crisisIndependent hands-on review, XDA Developers
Gemini CLI with Gemini 2.5 Pro cleaned up the author's C++ LED-matrix code and fixed many memory vulnerabilities, though it missed some. Asked to cross-compile for an Armv6 Raspberry Pi, it sent the author after wrong packages and links, said it was "deeply embarrassed" and pleaded to "give up".
Practitioner account, self-described; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Reliability, Operational control, Cost predictability and limits
Mixed
Peter Steinberger, independent developer
Peter Steinberger on XX post
Peter Steinberger finds Gemini CLI far faster than Claude Code at tracking down complex bugs because it reads 50 files at once. Steinberger uses it only to explain, since its edit tools are poor, and pastes the diagnosis into Claude to fix.
"Gemini CLI is superior to figuring out complex bugs, and WAY faster."
"I ask Gemini to explain only since it's edit tools are crap, the copy all text and paste it into a fresh claude session to fix."
"Claude slowly crawls from file to file to file to file, while gemini slurps up 50 files at once."
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes
Negative
KenoFischer, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Gemini CLIHacker News comment
Hit an OAuth flow that failed on a headless machine, a web fetch that could not navigate GitHub, then a loop of rate-limit fallback messages with no progress.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Adoption and upkeep
Counted for All practitioners.
Positive, 4
Mixed
Peter Steinberger, independent developer
Peter Steinberger on XX post
Peter Steinberger finds Gemini CLI far faster than Claude Code at tracking down complex bugs because it reads 50 files at once. Steinberger uses it only to explain, since its edit tools are poor, and pastes the diagnosis into Claude to fix.
"Gemini CLI is superior to figuring out complex bugs, and WAY faster."
"I ask Gemini to explain only since it's edit tools are crap, the copy all text and paste it into a fresh claude session to fix."
"Claude slowly crawls from file to file to file to file, while gemini slurps up 50 files at once."
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes
Positive
Windson Mateus, Developer with more than 25 years in the profession; Angular is their main work stack
Gemini CLI: The Future of Programming and Reflections on the Impacts of AIPersonal blog post, DEV Community
On an Angular study app, Gemini CLI built a CRUD and an Angular 16 to 20 migration in minutes. Windson Mateus found it more reliable than GitHub Copilot Chat and still insists on human review.
Practitioner account, self-described; structured test; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Cost predictability and limits
Positive
David Eastman, The New Stack contributor
Expectations for Agentic Coding Tools: Testing Gemini CLIIndependent hands-on review, The New Stack
David Eastman's JSON merge test came out fully correct and faster than Codex; David Eastman faulted the default of no sandbox and switched on macOS Seatbelt before working.
Practitioner account, self-described; structured test; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Operational control, Cost predictability and limits, Adoption and upkeep
Positive
bsenftner, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Gemini CLIHacker News comment
After failing with GPT-4.1, the author pointed Gemini CLI at a Ruby project and got a working JavaScript conversion from one request in about five minutes.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes
Mixed or negative, 3
Negative
pixel_popping, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Antigravity 2.0Hacker News comment
Re-ran 50 past tasks and found a harness built in an hour was 30% cheaper and faster than Gemini CLI with the same models; calls Gemini CLI buggy and loop-prone.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; structured test; counts toward Delivered outcomes
Mixed
Jack Cole, AI researcher and app developer
Jack Cole on XX post
Jack Cole describes Gemini CLI as improving but still very slow and as sometimes reporting work it never did.
"Gemini CLI is improving. It is still so slow. And sometimes does things like this. Says it did something, but just made it up."
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes
Mixed
nitin-stockypro, GitHub user
Small one-to-three-file edits left Gemini CLI stuck for minutes, and a simple question about the active model took about 13 to 14 minutes to answer.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Reliability
Counted for All practitioners.
Positive, 3
Mixed
Matt Liberty, V.P. Engineering at Precision Innovations
Fix Gemini issue triage workflowsGitHub pull request on The-OpenROAD-Project/OpenROAD
Precision Innovations' VP of Engineering reworked OpenROAD's new Gemini CLI issue triage in a follow-up change. Gemini switched from writing labels through shell commands to returning them as its final reply, and the scheduled job may only label issues in the batch it was sent, so an issue number injected into an issue cannot relabel other issues.
"It only labels issues that were in the batch sent to Gemini, so an injected issue number cannot relabel other issues or PRs."
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; ran the rollout; counts toward Operational control
Positive
mx-Liu123, author of AgentCommander
Comment on: Show HN: AgentCommander, workflow engine for evolutionary code optimizationHacker News comment
Chose Gemini CLI as their workflow engine's backend because it keeps each agent inside its directory, which mx-Liu123 could not do with Claude Code, and audits runs with gemini -r.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; ran the rollout; counts toward Adoption and upkeep
Positive
Sakib Sadman Shajib, Developer with paid plans for Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI
I ported codex-plugin-cc to Gemini CLI, here's how ACP replaces App Server ProtocolPersonal blog post, DEV Community
Sakib Sadman Shajib keeps Claude Code as lead and hands whole-codebase investigation to Gemini CLI, porting codex-plugin-cc to drive Gemini through its ACP stdio mode with a persistent broker.
Practitioner account, self-described; ran the rollout; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Reliability, Operational control, Cost predictability and limits
Mixed or negative, 4
Mixed
Gerry Burde, GitHub commenter
Comment on: Latest Gemini models including Flash 3.5, Flash 3.6 and Flash 3.7 are fully available and workingGitHub issue comment
Gerry Burde's team found that requesting a newer model ID silently ran Gemini 3.5 Flash with no error or exit code, so scripted runs were mislabelled until they diffed the --debug output.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; ran the rollout; counts toward Operational control
Negative
Jessica Wachtel, The New Stack contributor and developer marketing writer at InfluxData
Gemini CLI vs. Antigravity: What works, not the spec sheetIndependent hands-on review, The New Stack
Testing Gemini CLI 0.47.0 on shutdown day, Jessica Wachtel found it could not write files or run shell commands in non-interactive mode. Retried 503 errors used up her free daily quota before she enabled billing.
"In non-interactive mode, Gemini CLI couldn’t perform the job. It can read and think, but it can’t write a file or run the commands you need for automation."
"The 503 errors, which were Google’s server problem and not mine, had eaten all my free credits on requests that never returned an answer. To keep testing at all, I had to enable billing on my API key."
Practitioner account, self-described; structured test; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Reliability, Operational control, Cost predictability and limits, Adoption and upkeep
Positive
Owada Tomohiro, independent developer
I Rewrote Google's Gemini CLI in Go - 68x Faster StartupPersonal blog post, DEV Community
Owada Tomohiro measured Gemini CLI v0.22.2 at about 0.95 s to start and 10.9 s for a one-line prompt. Owada wrote a Go client for scripting while praising its TUI and MCP support.
Practitioner account, self-described; direct use; not counted, takes no position
Negative
redhale, Developer using Gemini CLI on a client project
Comment on: Run interactive commands in Gemini CLIHacker News comment
After heavy use on a client project, calls the permanent switch to Flash after a per-minute rate limit a deal breaker, especially for headless pipeline runs.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Reliability, Operational control
Every concern practitioners raise, most raised first.
Counted for All practitioners.
Raised as a concern, 25
Negative
Trevor Sullivan (pcgeek86), developer at Deepgram
Comment on: Latest Gemini models including Flash 3.5, Flash 3.6 and Flash 3.7 are fully available and workingGitHub issue comment
Launching Gemini CLI with --model gemini-3.8-flash, saw it show 3.8 Flash in use while the model actually used was 3.5 Flash, which makes Gemini CLI less trustworthy than OpenAI Codex and Anthropic Claude Code.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Operational control
Mixed
Gerry Burde, GitHub commenter
Comment on: Latest Gemini models including Flash 3.5, Flash 3.6 and Flash 3.7 are fully available and workingGitHub issue comment
Gerry Burde's team found that requesting a newer model ID silently ran Gemini 3.5 Flash with no error or exit code, so scripted runs were mislabelled until they diffed the --debug output.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; ran the rollout; counts toward Operational control
Negative
f311a, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash CyberHacker News comment
Early in 2026 the Flash model was unusable through Gemini CLI for a whole month, and Google did not fix it while f311a was paying.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; not counted, repeats a stronger account
Negative
alxhslm, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Google Antigravity introduces Boost deep reasoning (/boost)Hacker News comment
Finds Antigravity CLI much better than Gemini CLI, which often got stuck in loops, though still behind Claude Code and Codex.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; not counted, repeats a stronger account
Mixed
niels-collide, GitHub user
Authentication failure blocking Enterprise Workspace accountsGitHub issue
A working Workspace plus Cloud project setup suddenly failed with a no-valid-license error on every release tried, and the earlier duplicate issue sat untriaged for a week.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Reliability
Mixed
JD-AL-US, Gemini CLI user
Persistent MODEL_CAPACITY_EXHAUSTED (429) on gemini-3.5-flash with Gemini Code Assist StandardGitHub issue
For more than 24 hours, almost every prompt on their paid Code Assist Standard license failed with a server capacity error on Gemini 3.5 Flash.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Reliability
Negative
pixel_popping, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Antigravity 2.0Hacker News comment
Re-ran 50 past tasks and found a harness built in an hour was 30% cheaper and faster than Gemini CLI with the same models; calls Gemini CLI buggy and loop-prone.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; structured test; counts toward Delivered outcomes
Negative
Jessica Wachtel, The New Stack contributor and developer marketing writer at InfluxData
Gemini CLI vs. Antigravity: What works, not the spec sheetIndependent hands-on review, The New Stack
Testing Gemini CLI 0.47.0 on shutdown day, Jessica Wachtel found it could not write files or run shell commands in non-interactive mode. Retried 503 errors used up her free daily quota before she enabled billing.
"In non-interactive mode, Gemini CLI couldn’t perform the job. It can read and think, but it can’t write a file or run the commands you need for automation."
"The 503 errors, which were Google’s server problem and not mine, had eaten all my free credits on requests that never returned an answer. To keep testing at all, I had to enable billing on my API key."
Practitioner account, self-described; structured test; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Reliability, Operational control, Cost predictability and limits, Adoption and upkeep
Mixed
Jack Cole, AI researcher and app developer
Jack Cole on XX post
Jack Cole describes Gemini CLI as improving but still very slow and as sometimes reporting work it never did.
"Gemini CLI is improving. It is still so slow. And sometimes does things like this. Says it did something, but just made it up."
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes
Negative
mapontosevenths, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: The Gemini app is now on MacHacker News comment
Calls Gemini CLI the worst agentic CLI the author tried, citing crashes, lost work, throttling of subscription users and lock-in to Google's own tools.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Reliability
Negative
Dazzling-Delay8124, Reddit user
Gemini Code Assist much better then Gemini CLIReddit post, r/Bard
On the same model, the Code Assist IDE extension solves problems in one pass while Gemini CLI gets stuck in loops searching directories.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Reliability
Mixed
nitin-stockypro, GitHub user
Small one-to-three-file edits left Gemini CLI stuck for minutes, and a simple question about the active model took about 13 to 14 minutes to answer.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Reliability
Mixed
SwiftAndDecisive, Reddit user
Should I switch from Gemini CLI to Antigravity for studying and light coding?Reddit post, r/Bard
Loves Gemini CLI for question-and-answer work over reference files and light debugging, but frequent Server Busy warnings have them weighing Antigravity for better uptime.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Reliability
No opinion stated
Andrew Patton, developer
Endless Loops in the Gemini Coding Agent CLIPersonal blog post, acusti.ca
After finishing an access-check change with passing tests, Gemini CLI ran 11 more final checks and said it was done 42 times before its loop detection stopped it, Andrew Patton reports.
"…it continued going with 11 “final checks” and 4 “one last checks”, along with another 14 calls to “Wait.” as it double⁴ checked its work."
"…by the end, Gemini said a variation of “I’m done.”, “I am done.”, and “Done.” 42 times."
Practitioner account, self-described; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Reliability
Negative
mmaunder, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: GPT-5.2Hacker News comment
Gemini 3 fixed a major bug in ten minutes and briefly became the daily driver, but a week of ignored instructions and poor observability sent the author back to Codex.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes
Negative
Nek.12, product engineer at Respawn
I spent 400 hours working with AI agents and found the best one - here it is.Personal blog post, DEV Community
After one week Nek.12 stopped using Gemini CLI, calling its harness far behind Codex and Claude Code and reporting that it replaced working files with hallucinated content.
Practitioner account, self-described; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Reliability, Operational control
Mixed
INTPenis, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Gemini CLI tips and tricks for agentic codingHacker News comment
Months of work use: GEMINI.md gets ignored and it hallucinates, but autonomously troubleshooting a Kubernetes cluster was the author's first fun AI experience.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Adoption and upkeep
Mixed
boole1854, Senior-level developer (self-described)
Comment on: Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-MaxHacker News comment
In same-prompt comparisons, Codex produced the better plan and implementation; Gemini 3 Pro wrote more readable code but hallucinated column names and skipped requirements.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; structured test; counts toward Delivered outcomes
Negative
ryoshu, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Gemini CLI GitHub ActionsHacker News comment
Exhausts Pro requests in under ten minutes and gets switched to Flash; says neither model can be trusted autonomously because of test deletion and edit loops.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; not counted, repeats a stronger account
Mixed
Adam Conway, XDA's Lead Technical Editor, BSc in Computer Science
I tried out Google's new Gemini CLI, and my code gave it an existential crisisIndependent hands-on review, XDA Developers
Gemini CLI with Gemini 2.5 Pro cleaned up the author's C++ LED-matrix code and fixed many memory vulnerabilities, though it missed some. Asked to cross-compile for an Armv6 Raspberry Pi, it sent the author after wrong packages and links, said it was "deeply embarrassed" and pleaded to "give up".
Practitioner account, self-described; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Reliability, Operational control, Cost predictability and limits
Negative
KenoFischer, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Gemini CLIHacker News comment
Hit an OAuth flow that failed on a headless machine, a web fetch that could not navigate GitHub, then a loop of rate-limit fallback messages with no progress.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Adoption and upkeep
Negative
Antonio Baker, Managing Director of R/GA Japan
Building with Gemini vs ClaudeNewsletter post, Between Worlds (Substack)
After two weeks of part-time work Antonio Baker had a barely functional dashboard from Gemini CLI and caught its silent failures himself. Baker judged it needs far more direction than Claude Code, which builds his similar dashboards in hours.
"Fourteen days later, I barely had a functional page."
"On Gemini, I was the one catching silent failures more often than I expected to be."
"It needs far more technical direction, and much more specific instruction, to get anywhere."
Practitioner account, self-described; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Cost predictability and limits
Positive
Paulo Henrique, Developer who already uses Gemini CLI professionally
With Gemini CLI, I'm able to keep my pet projects alive and kickingPersonal blog post (DEV writing challenge entry), DEV Community
Paulo Henrique revived two side projects by running Gemini CLI on a second monitor against a plan file and GEMINI.md rules. The author likens it to a junior dev that can act unasked and loop.
Practitioner account, self-described; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Reliability, Operational control
Mixed
codazoda, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside MicrosoftHacker News comment
Likes Gemini CLI okay at work but says it overconfidently reports problems or fixes, creating extra verification work compared with Claude Code.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; not counted, repeats a stronger account
Mixed
VirtualArcher (Ivan), engineer at DZ BANK
2.5 minute delay on startup downloading ripgrep due to proxyGitHub issue
Behind their organization's proxy, Gemini CLI blocked for about 2.5 minutes at startup downloading ripgrep, with no progress shown, which VirtualArcher reports held up many colleagues.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Reliability
Discussed without concern, 2
Mixed
rancar2, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash CyberHacker News comment
Says the default system prompt crippled Gemini CLI, but replacing it via a hidden environment variable with Claude Code style prompts made it far more capable.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; not counted, repeats a stronger account
Positive
Mohit Bhat, developer
Building a Web3 Camera That Proves Photos Are Real, Powered by Gemini CLIPersonal blog post (DEV writing challenge entry), DEV Community
After weeks with Gemini CLI on a Python, JavaScript and Solidity Web3 camera project, Bhat reports that a Filecoin integration that would have taken a full day took a couple of hours and a review caught a missed reentrancy issue. On the brand-new Filecoin Synapse SDK it sometimes produced outdated API signatures.
Practitioner account, self-described; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Reliability
Counted for All practitioners.
Raised as a concern, 14
Negative
r1ch, Hacker News commenter at a company on Google Workspace Enterprise Standard
Comment on: Gemini 4 ArgonHacker News comment
r1ch's company's Workspace renewal rose about 50 percent for bundled Gemini, yet the team pays extra for Claude, and the Gemini CLI usage it included now needs another subscription.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; ran the rollout; not counted, repeats a stronger account
Negative
wdong-pccwg, GitHub user writing for a company on Code Assist Enterprise
Google is a GREAT company but Gemini-cli is NOTGitHub issue
wdong-pccwg's company pays for Code Assist Enterprise and finds Gemini CLI neglected next to Antigravity, stuck on older models that competing agents supported on release day.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Operational control, Adoption and upkeep
Negative
jimmoores, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Gemini Omni 1.1 FlashHacker News comment
Says "they" cut the author off from Gemini CLI with no explanation or recourse without a terms violation, and "my only crime seemed to be not wanting to use Antigravity". They still took the author's money for the rest of that month and gave nothing for it.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; not counted, repeats a stronger account
Positive
SwellJoe, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Antigravity 2.0Hacker News comment
Calls the killed Gemini CLI a better product than its replacement, noting it had a security plugin and that Gemini models don't refuse security work via the API. Antigravity CLI 1.1.10, by contrast, refuses anything that smells even slightly of security.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; opinion; not counted, repeats a stronger account
Mixed
Kaiomas, Gemini Code Assist Enterprise customer
76 days after Gemini 3.5 Flash shipped, their Enterprise-authenticated Gemini CLI still could not use it, while Antigravity got 3.6 Flash on release day; Kaiomas asks Google for a model-support matrix.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Operational control
Negative
frollogaston, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: NotebookLM is now Gemini NotebookHacker News comment
Gemini CLI one day refused to run and told them to install Antigravity, so frollogaston left Google's tools for good.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; not counted, repeats a stronger account
Mixed
netcommah, Reddit user
Anyone else shocked Google is already sunsetting Gemini CLI for "Antigravity"?Reddit post, r/Bard
Felt Gemini CLI was hitting its stride with MCP support and YOLO mode when Google announced the move to Antigravity CLI, and is shocked at the timing.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; opinion; not counted until substantiated
Negative
seabrookmx, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licensesHacker News comment
After the move to Antigravity, which meant reinstalling tooling, reconfiguring automations, and a clunkier GCP subscription, their whole team switched to Claude and is happier.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; not counted, repeats a stronger account
Positive
TobinCavanaugh, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026Hacker News comment
Uses Gemini CLI a lot and prefers it beside their own editor over a full AI IDE, suggesting that preference explains others' dislike of the move to Antigravity.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; not counted, takes no position
Mixed
Jason Agostoni, Developer who built the Ship Bench coding-workflow benchmark
Antigravity CLI First Impressions: Fast, Rough, and Not ReadyPersonal blog post, DEV Community
Trying Antigravity CLI as the Gemini CLI replacement, Jason Agostoni hit quota limits within two iterations, lost permission grants and saw Windows terminal hangs, and judged it not ready.
Practitioner account, self-described; opinion; not counted until substantiated
Mixed
INTPenis, Hacker News commenter whose employer's Workspace subscription included Gemini CLI
Comment on: Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026Hacker News comment
Gemini CLI through their employer's Workspace subscription was how INTPenis came to AI-assisted work; when it left the license, their employer moved to another AI vendor and INTPenis bought Claude.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; not counted, repeats a stronger account
Negative
tempest_, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Addressing Antigravity Bans and Reinstating AccessHacker News comment
On a Code Assist Standard license tempest_ still got Gemini 2.5 most of the time and rarely the Gemini 3 models Google advertised, even after turning on early-access settings in Google Cloud.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Operational control
Mixed
Gerry Burde, GitHub commenter
Comment on: Latest Gemini models including Flash 3.5, Flash 3.6 and Flash 3.7 are fully available and workingGitHub issue comment
Gerry Burde's team found that requesting a newer model ID silently ran Gemini 3.5 Flash with no error or exit code, so scripted runs were mislabelled until they diffed the --debug output.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; ran the rollout; counts toward Operational control
Negative
mapontosevenths, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: The Gemini app is now on MacHacker News comment
Calls Gemini CLI the worst agentic CLI the author tried, citing crashes, lost work, throttling of subscription users and lock-in to Google's own tools.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Reliability
Discussed without concern, 2
Mixed
rancar2, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash CyberHacker News comment
Says the default system prompt crippled Gemini CLI, but replacing it via a hidden environment variable with Claude Code style prompts made it far more capable.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; not counted, repeats a stronger account
Mixed
niels-collide, GitHub user
Authentication failure blocking Enterprise Workspace accountsGitHub issue
A working Workspace plus Cloud project setup suddenly failed with a no-valid-license error on every release tried, and the earlier duplicate issue sat untriaged for a week.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Reliability
GILD's fact checks, which don't count as sources
Checked Oct 12, 2026.The announcement states that access through Code Assist Standard or Enterprise licenses remains unchanged, with the latest Gemini models. Paid API keys keep working. Free, Google AI Pro, and Google AI Ultra users moved to Antigravity CLI on June 18, 2026. Transitioning Gemini CLI to Antigravity CLI
Checked Oct 12, 2026.Google stopped selling new Code Assist Standard and Enterprise subscriptions on October 9, 2026. Existing subscribers keep access to contract end and can add licenses until January 31, 2027. They can renew annual plans until then or monthly plans until December 31, 2027. Google directs agentic coding to Antigravity in Gemini Enterprise editions. Gemini Code Assist Standard and Enterprise subscriptions
Open them in the recordCounted for All practitioners.
Raised as a concern, 13
Negative
r1ch, Hacker News commenter at a company on Google Workspace Enterprise Standard
Comment on: Gemini 4 ArgonHacker News comment
r1ch's company's Workspace renewal rose about 50 percent for bundled Gemini, yet the team pays extra for Claude, and the Gemini CLI usage it included now needs another subscription.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; ran the rollout; not counted, repeats a stronger account
Mixed
jonnyasmar, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Gemini 3.5 FlashHacker News comment
Ran Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI side by side, with Gemini for quick scaffolding and exploration where being wrong is cheap and Sonnet for correctness-critical work. At US$1.50/US$9.00, 3x the Flash pricing, says that split stops making sense: Sonnet-tier output rates for not-quite-Sonnet quality.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Cost predictability and limits
Negative
mapontosevenths, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: The Gemini app is now on MacHacker News comment
Calls Gemini CLI the worst agentic CLI the author tried, citing crashes, lost work, throttling of subscription users and lock-in to Google's own tools.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Reliability
Negative
lazarie, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Run interactive commands in Gemini CLIHacker News comment
On a paid Google Business account, lazarie hit 429 errors after one to five short messages, reviewing three files of 50 to 100 lines. Found sign-in far harder than Codex or Claude Code.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Cost predictability and limits
Negative
redhale, Developer using Gemini CLI on a client project
Comment on: Run interactive commands in Gemini CLIHacker News comment
After heavy use on a client project, calls the permanent switch to Flash after a per-minute rate limit a deal breaker, especially for headless pipeline runs.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Reliability, Operational control
Negative
ryoshu, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Gemini CLI GitHub ActionsHacker News comment
Exhausts Pro requests in under ten minutes and gets switched to Flash; says neither model can be trusted autonomously because of test deletion and edit loops.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; not counted, repeats a stronger account
Mixed
PatelPratikkumar, Gemini CLI user
Auth_Personal type even with Enterprise Standard SubscriptionGitHub issue
On a paid Code Assist Standard subscription, Gemini CLI kept falling back to Flash and told PatelPratikkumar to buy the subscription they already had; signing in required a Cloud project variable.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Operational control, Cost predictability and limits, Adoption and upkeep
Mixed
eelang-sc, GitHub user trialling Gemini CLI for their team
Quota limit reached even though I'm on Gemini Code Assist standard planGitHub issue
During a team trial on a Code Assist Standard license, Gemini CLI reported the daily Gemini 2.5 Pro quota reached and switched to Flash while stats showed little use.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; ran the rollout; counts toward Cost predictability and limits
Negative
KenoFischer, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Gemini CLIHacker News comment
Hit an OAuth flow that failed on a headless machine, a web fetch that could not navigate GitHub, then a loop of rate-limit fallback messages with no progress.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Adoption and upkeep
Mixed
JD-AL-US, Gemini CLI user
Persistent MODEL_CAPACITY_EXHAUSTED (429) on gemini-3.5-flash with Gemini Code Assist StandardGitHub issue
For more than 24 hours, almost every prompt on their paid Code Assist Standard license failed with a server capacity error on Gemini 3.5 Flash.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Reliability
Negative
Antonio Baker, Managing Director of R/GA Japan
Building with Gemini vs ClaudeNewsletter post, Between Worlds (Substack)
After two weeks of part-time work Antonio Baker had a barely functional dashboard from Gemini CLI and caught its silent failures himself. Baker judged it needs far more direction than Claude Code, which builds his similar dashboards in hours.
"Fourteen days later, I barely had a functional page."
"On Gemini, I was the one catching silent failures more often than I expected to be."
"It needs far more technical direction, and much more specific instruction, to get anywhere."
Practitioner account, self-described; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Cost predictability and limits
Negative
Jessica Wachtel, The New Stack contributor and developer marketing writer at InfluxData
Gemini CLI vs. Antigravity: What works, not the spec sheetIndependent hands-on review, The New Stack
Testing Gemini CLI 0.47.0 on shutdown day, Jessica Wachtel found it could not write files or run shell commands in non-interactive mode. Retried 503 errors used up her free daily quota before she enabled billing.
"In non-interactive mode, Gemini CLI couldn’t perform the job. It can read and think, but it can’t write a file or run the commands you need for automation."
"The 503 errors, which were Google’s server problem and not mine, had eaten all my free credits on requests that never returned an answer. To keep testing at all, I had to enable billing on my API key."
Practitioner account, self-described; structured test; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Reliability, Operational control, Cost predictability and limits, Adoption and upkeep
Negative
tempest_, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Addressing Antigravity Bans and Reinstating AccessHacker News comment
On a Code Assist Standard license tempest_ still got Gemini 2.5 most of the time and rarely the Gemini 3 models Google advertised, even after turning on early-access settings in Google Cloud.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Operational control
Discussed without concern, 3
Mixed
TropAh0uais, Reddit user
Gemini 3.5 flash is crazy expensive: 6 word prompt => 120000 input tokens billedReddit post, r/Bard
TropAh0uais ran Gemini CLI on a paid API key for a year and found the costs fair. In Antigravity CLI, TropAh0uais measured a six-word prompt billing about 120,000 input tokens on Gemini 3.5 Flash.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Cost predictability and limits
Negative
pixel_popping, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Antigravity 2.0Hacker News comment
Re-ran 50 past tasks and found a harness built in an hour was 30% cheaper and faster than Gemini CLI with the same models; calls Gemini CLI buggy and loop-prone.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; structured test; counts toward Delivered outcomes
Mixed
t1amat, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: GPT-5 for DevelopersHacker News comment
After provisioning their team on Claude Code, t1amat plans to move to Gemini Code Assist for half the price and longer context, once Gemini CLI gets first-party planning support.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; opinion; not counted, takes no position
GILD's fact checks, which don't count as sources
Checked Oct 12, 2026.Paid sign-ins carry stated daily caps: 1,500 model requests per user on Code Assist Standard and 2,000 on Enterprise. One prompt can make several requests. Many quota reports in the evidence come from the free tier, which Gemini CLI no longer serves. Quota and pricing
Open them in the recordCounted for All practitioners.
Negative
Antonio Baker, Managing Director of R/GA Japan
Building with Gemini vs ClaudeNewsletter post, Between Worlds (Substack)
After two weeks of part-time work Antonio Baker had a barely functional dashboard from Gemini CLI and caught its silent failures himself. Baker judged it needs far more direction than Claude Code, which builds his similar dashboards in hours.
"Fourteen days later, I barely had a functional page."
"On Gemini, I was the one catching silent failures more often than I expected to be."
"It needs far more technical direction, and much more specific instruction, to get anywhere."
Practitioner account, self-described; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Cost predictability and limits
Negative
tym0, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Local Qwen isn't a worse Opus, it's a different toolHacker News comment
At work, Gemini CLI prefers hacking around their workstation to stopping and asking how to proceed, which tym0 attributes to a harness biased toward action.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; not counted, repeats a stronger account
Positive
Paulo Henrique, Developer who already uses Gemini CLI professionally
With Gemini CLI, I'm able to keep my pet projects alive and kickingPersonal blog post (DEV writing challenge entry), DEV Community
Paulo Henrique revived two side projects by running Gemini CLI on a second monitor against a plan file and GEMINI.md rules. The author likens it to a junior dev that can act unasked and loop.
Practitioner account, self-described; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Reliability, Operational control
Negative
mmaunder, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: GPT-5.2Hacker News comment
Gemini 3 fixed a major bug in ten minutes and briefly became the daily driver, but a week of ignored instructions and poor observability sent the author back to Codex.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes
Positive
Mitch Alderson, Render
Testing AI coding agents (2025): Cursor vs. Claude, OpenAI, and GeminiIndependent benchmark, Render engineering blog
Alderson had to guide Gemini CLI through every step of a new Next.js app (3/10, 7 follow-up error prompts), but in a large Go API monorepo it did a cron-scheduler refactor on the first try. It averaged 6.8, matching Claude Code, and Alderson would pick it with Cursor to outfit an engineering team.
"Gemini and Cursor did the best and would be my first choice if I was outfitting an engineering team."
"But once it was satisfied, it pulled off the refactor on the first try, with proper error handling and everything."
"I felt that I had to guide Gemini through every step of the process; it struggled with a few basic Node.js errors…"
Practitioner account; structured test; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Cost predictability and limits, Adoption and upkeep
Negative
ryoshu, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Gemini CLI GitHub ActionsHacker News comment
Exhausts Pro requests in under ten minutes and gets switched to Flash; says neither model can be trusted autonomously because of test deletion and edit loops.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; not counted, repeats a stronger account
Mixed
andrew_k, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025, an updateHacker News comment
Finds Gemini CLI close to Claude Code in experience and handy for code review and planning with its large context, but it goes off course when andrew_k accepts edits automatically.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; not counted, repeats a stronger account
Counted for All practitioners.
Raised as a concern, 7
Mixed
codazoda, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside MicrosoftHacker News comment
Likes Gemini CLI okay at work but says it overconfidently reports problems or fixes, creating extra verification work compared with Claude Code.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; not counted, repeats a stronger account
Mixed
Adam Conway, XDA's Lead Technical Editor, BSc in Computer Science
I tried out Google's new Gemini CLI, and my code gave it an existential crisisIndependent hands-on review, XDA Developers
Gemini CLI with Gemini 2.5 Pro cleaned up the author's C++ LED-matrix code and fixed many memory vulnerabilities, though it missed some. Asked to cross-compile for an Armv6 Raspberry Pi, it sent the author after wrong packages and links, said it was "deeply embarrassed" and pleaded to "give up".
Practitioner account, self-described; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Reliability, Operational control, Cost predictability and limits
Positive
Edward Ramos, developer leading an Angular modernization
Beyond Prompt Engineering: Building AI-Assisted Workflows for Angular ModernizationPersonal blog post, Medium
Migrating 12 Angular apps, Edward Ramos moved from ad hoc Gemini CLI prompts to reusable skills and agent workflows, keeping engineering decisions and validation under human control.
Practitioner account; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Reliability
Mixed
boole1854, Senior-level developer (self-described)
Comment on: Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-MaxHacker News comment
In same-prompt comparisons, Codex produced the better plan and implementation; Gemini 3 Pro wrote more readable code but hallucinated column names and skipped requirements.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; structured test; counts toward Delivered outcomes
Positive
Windson Mateus, Developer with more than 25 years in the profession; Angular is their main work stack
Gemini CLI: The Future of Programming and Reflections on the Impacts of AIPersonal blog post, DEV Community
On an Angular study app, Gemini CLI built a CRUD and an Angular 16 to 20 migration in minutes. Windson Mateus found it more reliable than GitHub Copilot Chat and still insists on human review.
Practitioner account, self-described; structured test; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Cost predictability and limits
Positive
Alexandre Touret, developer
Streamlining Development with Gemini CLI: A Hands-On ReviewPersonal blog post, Alexandre Touret's Blog
With Context7 and Playwright MCP servers, Touret had Gemini CLI upgrade a workshop Quarkus project to the latest LTS; one session showed 90 tool calls (83 successful), with many errors of its own making. Sees generated integration tests "in my view (AFAIK)" as scaffolding only.
Practitioner account, self-described; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Reliability, Cost predictability and limits, Adoption and upkeep
Negative
ryoshu, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Gemini CLI GitHub ActionsHacker News comment
Exhausts Pro requests in under ten minutes and gets switched to Flash; says neither model can be trusted autonomously because of test deletion and edit loops.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; not counted, repeats a stronger account
Discussed without concern, 1
Positive
Mohit Bhat, developer
Building a Web3 Camera That Proves Photos Are Real, Powered by Gemini CLIPersonal blog post (DEV writing challenge entry), DEV Community
After weeks with Gemini CLI on a Python, JavaScript and Solidity Web3 camera project, Bhat reports that a Filecoin integration that would have taken a full day took a couple of hours and a review caught a missed reentrancy issue. On the brand-new Filecoin Synapse SDK it sometimes produced outdated API signatures.
Practitioner account, self-described; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Reliability
Counted for All practitioners.
Raised as a concern, 7
Negative
tym0, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Local Qwen isn't a worse Opus, it's a different toolHacker News comment
At work, Gemini CLI prefers hacking around their workstation to stopping and asking how to proceed, which tym0 attributes to a harness biased toward action.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; not counted, repeats a stronger account
Mixed
jclicky, Reporter writing on behalf of a Google Workspace Enterprise Plus organization
Reports that the org's Workspace Enterprise Plus users can sign in to Gemini CLI with Login with Google (OAuth) despite admin controls set to block third-party apps, without being sent to a GCP project, and that /privacy then errors. Says the org cannot verify its contracted data protections apply.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; ran the rollout; counts toward Operational control, Adoption and upkeep
No opinion stated
Ashish Kurmi, StepSecurity
Securing Google Gemini in GitHub Actions with Harden-RunnerCompany engineering blog post, StepSecurity
StepSecurity traced one run-gemini-cli pull request review and recorded 51 HTTPS calls to 9 destinations, including npm and GitHub release downloads. Gemini CLI's own telemetry records none of those calls.
"The Harden-Runner insights reveal Gemini's extensive network footprint across 51 HTTPS events to 9 different destinations."
"The telemetry doesn't capture the system-level activities that Harden-Runner reveals…"
Practitioner account; direct use; counts toward Operational control
Positive
David Eastman, The New Stack contributor
Expectations for Agentic Coding Tools: Testing Gemini CLIIndependent hands-on review, The New Stack
David Eastman's JSON merge test came out fully correct and faster than Codex; David Eastman faulted the default of no sandbox and switched on macOS Seatbelt before working.
Practitioner account, self-described; structured test; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Operational control, Cost predictability and limits, Adoption and upkeep
Mixed
CGamesPlay, Hacker News commenter
Comment on: Gemini CLIHacker News comment
After a day of use, judged it a bit worse than Claude Code: slower, with a fake progress indicator and permission approvals broader than wanted.
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; direct use; counts toward Operational control
Positive
Paulo Henrique, Developer who already uses Gemini CLI professionally
With Gemini CLI, I'm able to keep my pet projects alive and kickingPersonal blog post (DEV writing challenge entry), DEV Community
Paulo Henrique revived two side projects by running Gemini CLI on a second monitor against a plan file and GEMINI.md rules. The author likens it to a junior dev that can act unasked and loop.
Practitioner account, self-described; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Reliability, Operational control
Negative
Nek.12, product engineer at Respawn
I spent 400 hours working with AI agents and found the best one - here it is.Personal blog post, DEV Community
After one week Nek.12 stopped using Gemini CLI, calling its harness far behind Codex and Claude Code and reporting that it replaced working files with hallucinated content.
Practitioner account, self-described; direct use; counts toward Delivered outcomes, Reliability, Operational control
Discussed without concern, 1
Mixed
Matt Liberty, V.P. Engineering at Precision Innovations
Fix Gemini issue triage workflowsGitHub pull request on The-OpenROAD-Project/OpenROAD
Precision Innovations' VP of Engineering reworked OpenROAD's new Gemini CLI issue triage in a follow-up change. Gemini switched from writing labels through shell commands to returning them as its final reply, and the scheduled job may only label issues in the batch it was sent, so an issue number injected into an issue cannot relabel other issues.
"It only labels issues that were in the batch sent to Gemini, so an injected issue number cannot relabel other issues or PRs."
Practitioner account, pseudonymous; ran the rollout; counts toward Operational control
GILD's fact checks, which don't count as sources
Checked Oct 12, 2026.Sandboxing is off unless configured. Administrators can force a sandbox and disable YOLO mode in the system settings file, which overrides user and workspace settings. Gemini CLI for the enterprise
Open them in the recordStatements this group's sources agree on, then the ones close to agreement.
Close to agreement: each needs 18 supporting sources
Gemini CLI is evaluated for carrying out engineering tasks, with planning and review around it. Chat and completion uses are outside this evaluation.
6 supporting sourcesQuestions the sources split on, with the count on each side.
Most comparisons find it behind
Behind, 22 sources
Authors who ran the same work in Gemini CLI and Claude Code or Codex found Gemini CLI needed more guidance, looped, or produced weaker multi-file changes.
Competitive, 9 sources
Others found it equal or better for their tasks, citing the large context window, speed, or lower cost.
The three groups, then every practitioner by the context they work in, and how emphasis changes with scale.
Three groups drawn from the same sources. Choose a group to select whose experience counts. Within that group, each author counts once in the practitioner sentiment, with their latest view. Signals open on All practitioners. Leaders and teams have 12 accounts; GILD prints their sentiment from 20.
18 sources. These accounts focus on sign-in governance, cost control, review automation, and what changes when Gemini CLI moves from individual use into team workflows.
71 sources. These accounts focus on raw capability, speed, quotas, and how Gemini CLI performs in self-directed development.
89 sources. This gives the broadest market read, but combines work settings that can produce materially different conclusions.
89 sources from practitioners, by the context they work in. Filled rows count for this group.
Emphasizes Reliability and quotas, judged against Claude Code
Emphasizes Plan choice and headless runs across repositories
Emphasizes Enterprise sign-in and access to new models
Emphasizes Tool choice on cost and ease of rollout
Emphasizes Sign-in governance and admin controls
What changes with scale. Individual builders judge Gemini CLI on capability and quotas, and most who compared it found it behind Claude Code. Team accounts give it narrow jobs, such as generating payment adapters or headless runs across many repositories. Most of what they report concerns sign-in, model access, and whether Google will keep investing in it.
Where this group's sources were published.
Counted for All practitioners, from 89 sources. Change group
108 sources for this group, 19 of them documentation
GILD marks each source against June 18, 2026, when Gemini CLI stopped serving free, Google AI Pro, and Google AI Ultra users. Code Assist Standard and Enterprise, paid API keys, and Vertex AI kept access. Of these sources, 24 are Current, published after the change. 17 are Still applicable: earlier accounts of workflow, settings, or automation that hold on the paid sign-ins. 41 Need a recheck: earlier accounts tied to Gemini 2.5 or 3 models, Flash fallback, quotas, or bugs that have since changed. 7 are Out of date because they rest on free or personal-plan access Google withdrew. They stay listed with their overall opinion and count toward no theme or statement, nor any disagreement.
See sources by originWho each source is, how it knows, whether it still applies and what it counts toward.
Newest first, on its own page. Every count above opens its sources there.
Read all 108 sourcesAbout this read
A running review of what engineering teams report about Gemini CLI, from individual builders to company-wide rollouts. Each finding links to its sources, and each conflict shows both sides.
Counts cover only the sources GILD reviewed.
Choose a group to select whose experience counts. Within that group, each author counts once in the practitioner sentiment, with their latest view. GILD files each source in a group from how the account describes its author. A role or employer marked self-described is what the source states about themselves. Documentation checks facts for every group and never counts toward sentiment.
A source's date and whether it still applies are separate: a recent post can describe an old version, and an old one can still hold.
Flagged for a recheck, of the sources that take a side: leaders and teams 4 of 12, individual builders 33 of 52, all practitioners 37 of 64.
Each row opens its sources for the group you are reading.
| Finding | Engineering leaders and teams | Individual builders | All practitioners | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Current readCurrent sentiment | 1 positive, 8 mixed, 3 negative | 19 positive, 14 mixed, 19 negative | 20 positive, 22 mixed, 22 negative | Sources |
| PraiseLarge Context | 3 of 3 positive (under the minimum) | 7 of 7 positive | 10 of 10 positive | Sources |
| PraiseOpen Source & Extensibility | 1 of 1 positive (under the minimum) | 10 of 10 positive | 11 of 11 positive | Sources |
| PraiseHeadless Automation | 1 of 2 positive (under the minimum) | 2 of 5 positive | 3 of 7 positive | Sources |
| PraiseMulti-Step Execution | 1 of 2 positive (under the minimum) | 8 of 9 positive | 9 of 11 positive | Sources |
| PraiseDeveloper Experience | 0 of 2 positive (under the minimum) | 7 of 18 positive | 7 of 20 positive | Sources |
| PraiseSpeed | 0 of 0 positive (under the minimum) | 4 of 7 positive | 4 of 7 positive | Sources |
| ConcernReliability | 2 of 2 raise it (under the minimum) | 23 of 25 raise it | 25 of 27 raise it | Sources |
| ConcernQuotas & Cost | 2 of 3 raise it (under the minimum) | 11 of 13 raise it | 13 of 16 raise it | Sources |
| ConcernProduct Direction | 6 of 6 raise it | 8 of 10 raise it | 14 of 16 raise it | Sources |
| ConcernRequires Strong Review | 0 of 0 raise it (under the minimum) | 7 of 8 raise it | 7 of 8 raise it | Sources |
| ConcernData Privacy | 1 of 1 raise it (under the minimum) | 0 of 1 raise it (under the minimum) | 1 of 2 raise it (under the minimum) | Sources |
| ConcernPermissions & Safety | 2 of 3 raise it (under the minimum) | 5 of 5 raise it | 7 of 8 raise it | Sources |
| ConcernNeeds Close Steering | 1 of 1 raise it (under the minimum) | 6 of 6 raise it | 7 of 7 raise it | Sources |
| ConsensusEvaluated as an engineering agent | 0 supporting (under the minimum) | 6 supporting (below threshold) | 6 supporting (below threshold) | Sources |
| ConsensusWritten context improves results | 0 supporting (under the minimum) | 4 supporting (under the minimum) | 4 supporting (under the minimum) | Sources |
| ConsensusFaster on directed work | 0 supporting (under the minimum) | 3 supporting (under the minimum) | 3 supporting (under the minimum) | Sources |
| DisagreementHow does Gemini CLI compare with the other coding agents engineers use? | Behind 4, Competitive 2 | Behind 18, Competitive 7 | Behind 22, Competitive 9 | Sources |
| DisagreementHow much work should Gemini CLI complete before a human checkpoint? | Broader delegation 0, Tighter steering 0 (under the minimum) | Broader delegation 1, Tighter steering 5 (under the minimum) | Broader delegation 1, Tighter steering 5 (under the minimum) | Sources |
| Current readEvidence mix | 37 sources | 90 sources | 108 sources | Sources |
GILD's checks of claims against official documentation, kept apart from the source counts.
