Comment by WhitneyLand

Agents muddy the waters.

Claude Code gets the most out of Anthropic’s models, that’s why people love it.

Conversely, Gemini CLI makes Gemini Pro 2.5 less capable than the model itself actual is.

It’s such a stark difference I’ve given up using Gemini CLI even with it being free, but still use it for situations amenable to a prompt interface on a regular basis. It’s a very strong model.