Comment by Aurornis
2 days ago
Your first point
> kind of surprised it was even offered and marketed given how painful it is to use. I thought it'd have to be damaging to the Gemini brand to get people to try it out, suffer painful UX then immediately stop using it.
is immediately explain by your second point
> Antigravity was also painful to use at launch where more queries failed then succeeded, however they've basically solved that now to the point where it's become my most used editor/IDE
Switching tools is easy right now. Some people pick a tool and stick with it, but it's common to jump from one to the other.
Many of us have the lowest tier subscriptions from a couple companies at the same time so we can jump between tools all the time.
Yeah except Gemini CLI is still bad after such a long time, every now and then I'll fire it up when I need a complex CLI command only to find that it hadn't improved and that I would've been better off asking an LLM instead. I don't quite understand its positioning, it's clearly a product of a lot of dev effort which I thought was for a re-imagined CLI experience, but I can't imagine anyone uses it as a daily driver for that.
I retried Antigravity a few weeks after launch after Augment Code's new pricing kicked in, and was pleasantly surprised at how reliable it became and how far I got with just the free quota, was happy to upgrade to Pro to keep using it and haven't hit a quota since. I consider it a low tier sub in cost, but enables a high/max tier sub workflow.