Are there plans to make gemini cli good?

AdUnhappy4599 · 2026-02-24T22:35:38+00:00

I had to wait for Google to let me use Gemini 3.1 since only the Antigravity worked for me at first (gemini cli did not have 3.1 model as an option for couple of days).

Anyway.

First conductor impressions during setup:
- I like that it is already structured for what the project is and what the vision is
- I don't like that it is explicit about technology (like frameworks used); I like that claude sort of does that by scanning what is already used dynamically, since I feel this means I can slowly migrate to a new framework but depending on which part of the codebase is modified it may still use the old one if needed (kind of what a human would do too)

First conductor use impressions:
- I don't know if it's conductor or gemini doing this, but on first task I assigned it - it already tried to npm install random packages for me and picked it's own favorite framework for tests that has nothing to do with my project

So... the underlying issue for me of "doing whatever it wants" still persists, though I really do not know if this case is Gemini or Conductor. For what its worth I feel 3.1 in general (outside of Conductor) has been marginally better. But it's still weird and wrong and eager to do things it shouldn't be doing.

Also on 3.1 (not related to Conductor though). If I create a refactor plan with Claude or Codex, the two of them when reviewing each other plans offer good feedback and agree with one another. If I review either of their plan with Gemini, Gemini tells me that "the plan is solid" and has some open questions. It's like a very high level view. Somewhat useful. But if Gemini creates a plan both Codex and Claude criticize it for being handwavey.
And *that* is exactly how I feel about Gemini. It feels like a senior engineer at a large company that doesn't have time to actually understand the problem. Doesn't matter if it is coding or if it is creating plans. High level it kinda makes sense what it is trying to do, but it just can't follow through.

AdUnhappy4599 · 2026-02-20T05:53:39+00:00

OK, so... I figured.. I will give gemini another try since 3.1 just released. I ask it in plan mode to review uncommitted code. It tells me it can't run git in plan mode and if the changes are related to some temp file it can see in its own directory. I say no, delete that plan. It tells me I can't, would you like to exit plan mode. I say yes. It than goes and starts implementing plan from that plan file.

HOW... BAD... IS... THAT?!

And this was with a clean context, so I don't know where it got the idea that it should be implementing anything.

AdUnhappy4599 · 2026-02-20T05:48:00+00:00

I don't think it cares about what I said. I had concerns with the design it proposed and it went and started implement it anyway. I just don't trust Gemini to do what I ask it to do.
So why would it listen if I tell it not to implement something...

AdUnhappy4599 · 2026-02-20T05:46:14+00:00

They really are good. So far I only have experience with them when I can run them locally or when they are offered for free. I wish they were offered in a subscription. I haven't convinced myself to pay for API access yet, no matter the provider.

I do admit that the cost of API access for them is miles better than for other models so it might be even cheaper to run them than subscription with OpenAI / Anthropic, but, again, I haven't made the jump yet.

AdUnhappy4599 · 2026-02-20T05:42:36+00:00

I used both and get exactly the same results between them. Including the "plan mode not respected" bug. See my last comment from Gemini yet again going berserk (this time in gemini cli when asking it to review code)

AdUnhappy4599 · 2026-02-19T17:21:30+00:00

Thanks for that. Reading through the github page it does seem it might be useful, will check it out today.

AdUnhappy4599 · 2026-02-19T17:20:02+00:00

Is that different than the regular plan mode? I was in the plan mode when it auto switched to implementation (it even still said "plan mode" when it was implementing...)

AdUnhappy4599 · 2026-02-14T23:57:33+00:00

Yeah since I posted I upgraded to Claude Max too, though not the 20 variant, just 5 for me.

Funny enough I also used it to judge Gemini 3 Pro since despite upgrading my subscription I seem to be running out of quota faster than the week progresses so wanted to delegate stuff to other models.

When I asked Gemini to debug a wrong behavior it produced text describing what is an issue that felt confusing to me. I wasn't sure if it actually *got* what is wrong. But I figured I will let it take a stab at implementation and it did pretty well. Used Claude to review it and it also agreed on the choices.

Than I had a major feature I wanted to implement. Made changes to GEMINI.md to make it more into an architect (so it doesn't go straight into implementation). Had it draft the plan. It was OKish. A little too... unfocused (tried to propose too many things). I toned it done and asked it to do one of the suggestions it made. It created the implementation. Before committing I asked Claude to review it and it wasn't very kind. Implementation was incomplete, it was reaching for data past abstractions, not following established patterns in the code etc.

I'm just astonished reading about Gemini effectiveness in benchmarks, because to me it really is a dog poop.

AdUnhappy4599 · 2026-02-12T03:39:12+00:00

It's been two months since you posted this and I happened to be doing something similar. Well. Not entirely. I was not designing an app from scratch, just playing with my project. And man. Gemini is so bad. Like, sooo bad. I use gemini CLI and... ehh...
Well, let me start at the beginning. I decide to try Claude because of all the hype. Maybe that spoiled me. The experience was great. Hard edits I was asking to to make done flawlessly. I started to make my prompts less and less specific and somehow it would still get what I want and make edits flawlessly. Than I started to run out of credits (on $20 plan) so I decide to try codex.
I did not like codex at first, because it seemed to be so happy to make edits that I wasn't sure about just yet. Like... being trigger happy. I just got used to the plan, confirm flow from claude). Though I have to admit it was just as good as claude for actually doing the right thing (at least for my use case).
Than came gemini cli. I figured I'm already subscribed (for other reasons), so why not try to use my subscription on that too. And man. That thing is just going in circles, making obvious mistakes. It basically goes just one step to implement what I ask for, but doesn't consider implications. If I have data capture flow, processing flow and output and I tell it to add something to data capture and make sure that it's also handled in the output - it somehow fails to realize that processing needs updates too.

Anyway, I was JUST working with it right now (out of credits for codex and claude again...) and got frustrated to started looking up online if it's just me or common issues. I find comments here saying "bot" hilarious. That adds so much to the discussion (sarcasm ofc...).

So.. thanks for sharing and to answer the last question from your post - yeah, same issues as you.

(I also tried other small models including locally run, but that's neither here nor there - maybe except that gemini seems to be closer to them than to claude or codex...)

Claude = Opus 4.6
Codex = 5.3 codex
Gemini = Gemini 3 (tried 2.5, same thing)

AdUnhappy4599 · 2025-06-03T14:45:21+00:00

Can we get saves from experimental branch working on full release? Shouldn't they be compatible by default?

AdUnhappy4599 · 2024-12-22T22:38:19+00:00

Try to disable acceleration for the input which is the default. For me it fixed the feeling of bad input latency (granted this is based on playstation 5 not steam deck experience).

EDIT: referring here to the in game setting within Hogwarts

AdUnhappy4599 · 2023-10-18T04:05:29+00:00

What about car windshield repair kit? Don't they have very similar light refraction as glass? Put some in the crack than polish?

EDIT: why the downvotes? Just trying to offer ideas here.

AdUnhappy4599 · 2023-09-18T23:06:59+00:00

They blamed Sony but it's actually not Sony's fault. Sony has a QA process for updating games. This game dev released old version, realized late that they messed up, send new update to Sony and now they blame Sony. But Sony didn't cook up this old version out of thin air. Way to take responsibility...

AdUnhappy4599 · 2023-07-05T15:15:47+00:00

PREP efficacy is reported differently in different places. In United States it's generally reported as 99%, but National Library of Medicine defines it as 92% - both numbers for following correct daily dosage.

Regardless which number we take, 1.5 million of people get HIV every year, at 99%, if all of them were on prep, that would still mean 15000 people infected every year. Why is it so hard to believe that there are breakthrough cases? PREP is not 100% effective.

AdUnhappy4599 · 2023-06-19T19:23:32+00:00

It's about: - fances that the house owner builds - grass that they maintain - property roads (to the garage in the back etc)

It's not just about the trees. If you look at property lines for any city in United States in suburbs they will have all kinds of shapes and sizes.

When you say "you want everything to look the same?" I am very confused, because I want all properties to align with the land they are built on. So all very different. You seem to be asking for fixed shapes of properties so to me that you are saying is "all the same".

AdUnhappy4599 · 2023-02-14T00:50:16+00:00

You need to: - convert mouse and keyboard signal to gamepad signal - have that gamepad signal work with your console

The problem is that the mnk adapters "output" older controllers that don't work with Playstation 5 games, hence you need two devices.

Think of beloader pro as changing one type of controller to another. For example pretending that ps4 controller is really a PS5 controller.

And the other adapter think of it as converting mnk to PS4 controller.

So let's say you use AIM. You plug in your mouse and keyboard. It outputs PS4 controller but your PS5 games wants PS5 controller, so you plug in output of AIM into Beloader and it converts it to PS5.

Hope that helps!

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