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So... has Google provided a Codex/Claude Code equivalent to Gemini yet? I would like to use Gemini for coding tasks, but that's kind of difficult to do as I don

So... has Google provided a Codex/Claude Code equivalent to Gemini yet? I would like to use Gemini for coding tasks, but that's kind of difficult to do as I don't even know how to get Gemini to even "clone this repo and read the code in it for static analysis", much less open PRs in repos. ChatGPT/Codex can do it, Claude can do it, why can't Gemini? And no, I don't mean going through Antigravity, and personally I'm wary about LLMs having unsupervised access on my computer without explicit policy, so I really think Google is putting the cart before the horse here.

jatora 4mo ago
no. gemini's instruction following is currently abysmal. Gemini CLI could be a great scaffold for all we know, but we cant know because the models it uses are so horribly bad at being driven in that way. no clue why google has dropped the ball this hard on IF.
- polski-g 4mo ago
  They have a 3.1-pro-customtools model which they allege its better at using custom tools/MCPs/etc. It is not better.
- nl 4mo ago
  I think 3.5 Flash is supposed to improve the long-range instruction following. I haven't tried it at that because for the short range tasks I gave it I found it around Sonnet level, but slower (because it takes more tries!) which makes it more expensive. The old Flash models were great because they were fast. 3.5 Flash shows Google can work around the old "Good, Fast or Cheap: Pick any two" thing by picking none of them.
- antonvs 4mo ago
  > Gemini CLI could be a great scaffold Gemini CLI has been terminated, replaced by Antigravity CLI. Gemini CLI was supposed to have actually stopped working on June 18. Antigravity works fine for software development tasks though, even pretty complex ones. I used it to optimize an ML training process recently, it did a good job. Antigravity is supposed to be usable for more general tasks as well, but I haven’t tried it for anything else.
andrewbutts 4mo ago
Yes, Gemini CLI and Antigravity
kakugawa 4mo ago
Antigravity CLI (which replaced Gemini CLI): https://antigravity.google/product/antigravity-cli https://antigravity.google/product/antigravity-cli
- anigbrowl 4mo ago
  So a couple weeks ago I decided to pay some money for the Gemini API cause I'd found myself getting a lot of use out of the free tier chat and figured they deserved some of my cash. First headache was a lot of delays and 'service unavailable due to excessive load messages'. Second headache was a lot of frustration with the Continue plugin in my IDE. Gemini chat suggests I try the Antigravity app. I do so. IT's OK. Launch it on an agentic task, it gets part way through and stops, asking me to subscribe. Try getting it to use some of the Gemini credits I paid for a few days earlier. Turns out Antigravity is developed by a completely separate team within Google and they don't recognize or accommodate Gemini credits because they are trying to maintain budgetary independence so as to maintain operational autonomy Gemini. At least, that's the explanation Gemini (free tier) offered for why Antigravity (Free/subscription only) won't accept Gemini (prepaid/subscription) payments. What a time to be alive. You won't be surprised to learn I switched to a competitor.
  - reacharavindh 4mo ago
    +1 to service unavailable annoyances. It has been close to unusable for anything serious. I did really like the ability of Gemini-pro models to ground their research using Google Search. This meant that they were often much more thorough and up to date in their recommendations and finding solutions that came to life after the models themselves were trained. But even using Gemini as a reviewer was a weak point in my harness because of the poor reliability of their service (529 or 503). I’ve since paid for a search API(linkup, exa, and valyu) and hooked them up to Deepseekv4-pro. It has been doing a stellar job. The key was to prompt them to systematically use search to validate their answers(not simply “use the tool”, but something like find possibilities using web search, then once you formulate a solution, validate it with this check list - 1. Is there a better way to do this in 2026? 2. Are the libraries and its docs you’re using up to date? This seems to help very much based on experience.
liuchao-001 4mo ago
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jatora 4mo ago

no. gemini's instruction following is currently abysmal. Gemini CLI could be a great scaffold for all we know, but we cant know because the models it uses are so horribly bad at being driven in that way. no clue why google has dropped the ball this hard on IF.

polski-g 4mo ago
They have a 3.1-pro-customtools model which they allege its better at using custom tools/MCPs/etc. It is not better.
nl 4mo ago
I think 3.5 Flash is supposed to improve the long-range instruction following. I haven't tried it at that because for the short range tasks I gave it I found it around Sonnet level, but slower (because it takes more tries!) which makes it more expensive. The old Flash models were great because they were fast. 3.5 Flash shows Google can work around the old "Good, Fast or Cheap: Pick any two" thing by picking none of them.
antonvs 4mo ago
> Gemini CLI could be a great scaffold Gemini CLI has been terminated, replaced by Antigravity CLI. Gemini CLI was supposed to have actually stopped working on June 18. Antigravity works fine for software development tasks though, even pretty complex ones. I used it to optimize an ML training process recently, it did a good job. Antigravity is supposed to be usable for more general tasks as well, but I haven’t tried it for anything else.

andrewbutts 4mo ago

Yes, Gemini CLI and Antigravity

kakugawa 4mo ago

Antigravity CLI (which replaced Gemini CLI): https://antigravity.google/product/antigravity-cli https://antigravity.google/product/antigravity-cli

anigbrowl 4mo ago
So a couple weeks ago I decided to pay some money for the Gemini API cause I'd found myself getting a lot of use out of the free tier chat and figured they deserved some of my cash. First headache was a lot of delays and 'service unavailable due to excessive load messages'. Second headache was a lot of frustration with the Continue plugin in my IDE. Gemini chat suggests I try the Antigravity app. I do so. IT's OK. Launch it on an agentic task, it gets part way through and stops, asking me to subscribe. Try getting it to use some of the Gemini credits I paid for a few days earlier. Turns out Antigravity is developed by a completely separate team within Google and they don't recognize or accommodate Gemini credits because they are trying to maintain budgetary independence so as to maintain operational autonomy Gemini. At least, that's the explanation Gemini (free tier) offered for why Antigravity (Free/subscription only) won't accept Gemini (prepaid/subscription) payments. What a time to be alive. You won't be surprised to learn I switched to a competitor.
- reacharavindh 4mo ago
  +1 to service unavailable annoyances. It has been close to unusable for anything serious. I did really like the ability of Gemini-pro models to ground their research using Google Search. This meant that they were often much more thorough and up to date in their recommendations and finding solutions that came to life after the models themselves were trained. But even using Gemini as a reviewer was a weak point in my harness because of the poor reliability of their service (529 or 503). I’ve since paid for a search API(linkup, exa, and valyu) and hooked them up to Deepseekv4-pro. It has been doing a stellar job. The key was to prompt them to systematically use search to validate their answers(not simply “use the tool”, but something like find possibilities using web search, then once you formulate a solution, validate it with this check list - 1. Is there a better way to do this in 2026? 2. Are the libraries and its docs you’re using up to date? This seems to help very much based on experience.

liuchao-001 4mo ago

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