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My enthusiasm is a bit muted this cycle because I've been burned by Gemini CLI. These models are very capable but Gemini CLI just doesn't seem to be able to wor

My enthusiasm is a bit muted this cycle because I've been burned by Gemini CLI. These models are very capable but Gemini CLI just doesn't seem to be able to work for one it never follows instructions strictly like its competitors do, and it hallucinates even which is a rarity. More importantly feels like Google is stretched thin across different Gemini products and pricing reflects this, I still have no idea how to pay for Gemini CLI, in codex/claude its very simple $20/month for entry and $200/month for ton of weekly usage. I hope whoever is reading this from Google they can redeem Gemini CLI by focusing on being competitive instead of making it look pretty (that seems to be the impression I got from the updates on X)

cheema33 8mo ago
> I still have no idea how to pay for Gemini CLI, in codex/claude its very simple $20/month for entry and $200/month for ton of weekly usage. This! I would like to sign up for a paid plan for Gemini CLI. But I have not been able to figure out how. I already have Codex and Claude plans. Those were super easy to sign up for.
- jiggawatts 8mo ago
  What’s your difficulty? Google has published easy to follow 27-step instructions for how to sign up for the half a dozen services you need to chain together to enable this common usecase!
  - knollimar 8mo ago
    On the 3.0 rollout I signed up for billing and it just silently failed. Solution was to remake billing account and then wait a day
    - jiggawatts 8mo ago
      “Time machine not included. Some temporal slippage may be experienced. Paradoxes will not be compensated.”
- magicalhippo 8mo ago
  Supposedly the Google One AI plans[1] allow for this. I've been testing an AI Pro plan, but haven't gotten CLI to work yet (keeps asking me to sign in). So yeah... [1]: https://one.google.com/about/#compare-plans https://one.google.com/about/#compare-plans

cheema33 8mo ago

> I still have no idea how to pay for Gemini CLI, in codex/claude its very simple $20/month for entry and $200/month for ton of weekly usage. This! I would like to sign up for a paid plan for Gemini CLI. But I have not been able to figure out how. I already have Codex and Claude plans. Those were super easy to sign up for.

jiggawatts 8mo ago
What’s your difficulty? Google has published easy to follow 27-step instructions for how to sign up for the half a dozen services you need to chain together to enable this common usecase!
- knollimar 8mo ago
  On the 3.0 rollout I signed up for billing and it just silently failed. Solution was to remake billing account and then wait a day
  - jiggawatts 8mo ago
    “Time machine not included. Some temporal slippage may be experienced. Paradoxes will not be compensated.”
magicalhippo 8mo ago
Supposedly the Google One AI plans[1] allow for this. I've been testing an AI Pro plan, but haven't gotten CLI to work yet (keeps asking me to sign in). So yeah... [1]: https://one.google.com/about/#compare-plans https://one.google.com/about/#compare-plans