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sega_saiyesterday at 6:07 PM2 repliesview on HN

My recent experience of Gemini CLI in comparison to Claude code is very negative. For a complex task of trying to migrate some code base from CPU-only to GPU computations Claude was really helpful, and allowed me to conduct a range of experiments and converge towards sensible architecture. In the same time I simply was not able to get anything useful out of Gemini. Some code was written, but it was not tested, was failing or timing out and after repeated prodding Gemini got into loops or internal errors.


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atonseyesterday at 11:30 PM

I just tried it today and it made a comically bad edit to my elixir file. I’ve never experienced that with Claude.

I used to use Gemini occasionally with cursor 6 months ago and it wasn’t this bad. So I’m not sure what exactly caused it to be that bad.

chewzyesterday at 7:19 PM

Watching Gemini CLI repo daily is great insight into how Google works. Tons of commits, three release channels, great ambitions and very little to show. These guys are running in all directions and getting nowhere.

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