Comment by toraway

Gemini CLI has improved a lot in the past 6 months or so. Back when I used in the 2.5 Pro era it would get stuck in loops literally like 1/8 conversations and I eventually just gave up despite having access included in my AI Pro plan.

But last month I picked it up again and it has crushed everything I've thrown at it. As Codex limits tighten on the Plus plan it's been my main fallback and doesn't even feel like a downgrade when I switch over. Haven't hit a single loop so far using it nearly every day for several weeks so that problem seems solved finally, thank god.

I've been using it in the auto router mode and haven't felt the need to manually lock in the bigger model yet. It's incredibly snappy which I realized I really appreciate vs. waiting around endlessly for minutes each turn, but I've read other people's experiences needing to manually select the Pro model so YMMV.