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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

by asadm 1y 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.

zackify 1y 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
- asadm 1y ago
  not at all. these new models mostly write compiling code.
  - tvshtr 1y ago
    Depends on the language. It has some bugs where it replaces some words with Unicode symbols like ©. And is completely oblivious to it even when pointed out.
    - asadm 1y ago
      did you face this in the aistudio ui by any chance? i have seen it there.
      - tvshtr 1y ago
        Ive seen it both in the Studio and via API, with various character replacements. It's weird, it's like its own dialect, the character usually corresponds to the word (or part od it) being replaced.
_zoltan_ 1y ago
what's your workflow?
- leoh 1y ago
  +1 I have not found Gemini 2.5 better than Claude's latest models -- different and better at some things, but not better in general; and in general I have found Gemini 2.5 Pro to be worse at dealing with large codebases despite its huge context window. So I too am quite curious about the workflow here.
  - asadm 1y ago
    the core idea is to not use up all of context for files but instead sessions go longer before becoming a useless pursuit ie. more turns possible with larger context window
    - leoh 1y ago
      Are you doing this with an LLM interface directly as opposed to using cursor or another tool like that?
      - asadm 1y ago
        yeah i meant via coding interfaces, mostly aider/claude code/gemini cli
- asadm 1y ago
  i guess one core idea is to point it to an entrypoint or some part of code you are planning to touch. instead of asking it to load up every file etc. and then figure out the control flow.

by asadm 1y ago

zackify 1y 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

asadm 1y ago
not at all. these new models mostly write compiling code.
- tvshtr 1y ago
  Depends on the language. It has some bugs where it replaces some words with Unicode symbols like ©. And is completely oblivious to it even when pointed out.
  - asadm 1y ago
    did you face this in the aistudio ui by any chance? i have seen it there.
    - tvshtr 1y ago
      Ive seen it both in the Studio and via API, with various character replacements. It's weird, it's like its own dialect, the character usually corresponds to the word (or part od it) being replaced.

_zoltan_ 1y ago

what's your workflow?

leoh 1y ago
+1 I have not found Gemini 2.5 better than Claude's latest models -- different and better at some things, but not better in general; and in general I have found Gemini 2.5 Pro to be worse at dealing with large codebases despite its huge context window. So I too am quite curious about the workflow here.
- asadm 1y ago
  the core idea is to not use up all of context for files but instead sessions go longer before becoming a useless pursuit ie. more turns possible with larger context window
  - leoh 1y ago
    Are you doing this with an LLM interface directly as opposed to using cursor or another tool like that?
    - asadm 1y ago
      yeah i meant via coding interfaces, mostly aider/claude code/gemini cli
asadm 1y ago
i guess one core idea is to point it to an entrypoint or some part of code you are planning to touch. instead of asking it to load up every file etc. and then figure out the control flow.