I've been using Gemini CLI for months now, mainly because we have a free subscription for it through work.

Tip 1, it consistently ignores my GEMINI.md file, both global and local. Even though it's always saying that "1 GEMINI.md file is being used", probably because the file exists in the right path.

Tip 12, had no idea you could do this, seems like a great tip to me.

Tip 16 was great, thanks. I've been restarting it everytime my environment changes for some reason. Or having it run direnv for me.

All the same warnings about AI apply for Gemini CLI, it hallucinates wildly.

But I have to say gemini cli gave me my first real fun experience using AI. I was a late comer to AI, but what really hooked me was when I gave it permission to freely troubleshoot a k8s PoC cluster I was setting up. Watching it autonomously fetch logs, objects, troubleshoot until it found the error was the closest thing to getting a new toy for christmas for me in many years.

So I've kept using it, but it is frustrating sometimes when AI is behaving so stupid you just /quit and do it yourself.