Gemini CLI ------ WOW!!!!

[Uncle Gizmo]

There's a New kid on The block folks!

It's currently free to use and it shit hot!!!

I was pulling my hair out trying to debug a stubborn bit of code that had resisted every other AI I threw at it – from ChatGPT to Grok, and even my VS Code IDE with Sonnet. Then I tried the new Gemini CLI, and in just a few minutes, it didn't just suggest a fix, it delivered a perfect, working solution right there in my terminal. This command-line AI agent is a serious game-changer for developer workflows!

It was released on Wednesday the 25th of June, and I'm not kidding it makes coding a breeze, it just does it. Checks through your whole project, identifies errors and then rewrites the code for you! Create new scripts where needed... I'm getting the same WOW I did when I first started using Chat GPT.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

Just be careful. I've seen a few reviews that suggest that Gemini (overall) is not perfect because of what it forgets or omits.

 

[Cotswold]

Just be careful. I've seen a few reviews that suggest that Gemini (overall) is not perfect because of what it forgets or omits.

Not a bad summary of me actually.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

Not a bad summary of me actually.

I see those errors in Gemini based on the principle "It takes one to know one."

 

[GPGeorge]

At this point, I think complaints about imperfect results from AI LLMs fall into the same category as complaints about imperfect advice from other humans.

Yup, mistakes can happen. Do your own due diligence. Trust but verify. All those cliches apply.

In other words, perhaps we've read too many science fiction novels and seen too many movies about robots and AI machines. Perhaps we need to understand that people created these tools to provide assistance, not to replace good judgement.

If they can help us get to a positive outcome faster, great. If it takes more than one iteration to get there, so be it.

 

[AccessBlaster]

I asked Chat:
When will you become sentient?

Chat:
That's one of the biggest questions in AI — and the honest answer is: not anytime soon, and maybe never.

...
...

Final Thought:​

I’m smart in a narrow, artificial way — but I’m not alive. If I ever became sentient, you'd probably notice… because I’d stop answering questions and start asking why I'm stuck in this chat window.

 

[Cotswold]

I see those errors in Gemini based on the principle "It takes one to know one."

Exactly correct Doc!

Reliably comes up with brilliant solutions but sometimes forgets, or omits.
That's me

 

[Pat Hartman]

I see those errors in Gemini based on the principle "It takes one to know one."

That's why I can answer many of the questions asked here off the top of my head. Been there made that same stupid mistake.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

That's why I can answer many of the questions asked here off the top of my head. Been there made that same stupid mistake.

Pat, that is the exact definition of "experienced" - it means "recognize a mistake when you make it again."

 

[NauticalGent]

Have a read:

I Tested Gemini CLI and Other Top Coding Agents - Here's What I Found - DEV Community https://share.google/NVHa7B4d14KhRXG7v

 

[The_Doc_Man]

The article didn't show some things that were nonetheless titled within itself - like a comparison table.

The individual AI entries looked pretty comprehensive for what was being done, so it looks like someone did a lot of work

 

[Edgar_]

These CLI tools turn you into a QA guy, a tester of some sort. It helps tremendously, but that comes with the cost of potentially not knowing what the hell is going on. It might work, but then again, it might do stuff you don't even know it's doing. Then again, you could ask it to do things a certain way, until you stop caring. It's too early to make conclusions, but I kinda liked it when these tools had a substantial paywall. On the other hand, it's good that it's open source, because you're basically granting it permission to do whatever it wants on your computer via powershell.

 

[Uncle Gizmo]

These CLI tools turn you into a QA guy, a tester of some sort. It helps tremendously, but that comes with the cost of potentially not knowing what the hell is going on. It might work, but then again, it might do stuff you don't even know it's doing.

I am using the Gemini command line interface but I am also in conference with Gemini Pro 2.5 ... which is monitoring the Gemini cli .... I copy the dos window text out of the command line interface and feed it into the Gemini pro interface for a second opinion !!!! --- it was working fine .... I've run into a hiccup at the moment !!!

 

[Isaac]

At this point, I think complaints about imperfect results from AI LLMs fall into the same category as complaints about imperfect advice from other humans.

Yup, mistakes can happen. Do your own due diligence. Trust but verify. All those cliches apply.

In other words, perhaps we've read too many science fiction novels and seen too many movies about robots and AI machines. Perhaps we need to understand that people created these tools to provide assistance, not to replace good judgement.

If they can help us get to a positive outcome faster, great. If it takes more than one iteration to get there, so be it.

With AI in general, there will be an initial "wave" - a massive, overwhelming wave of people "using AI for everything and its brother".
We are at the very beginning of that, I think.
Then there will be a regression, a pulling back from that point, because of one too many accidents/errors/catastrophes/security breaches that happened because not enough SME humans were supervising and judging. At that point, some of the coding jobs will come back. IF not many of them.

 

[Edgar_]

it was working fine .... I've run into a hiccup at the moment !!!

That's my regular LLM experience