Comment by 0xbadcafebee
11 hours ago
> Is Gemini CLI at a usable state?
Technically usable but with bad/broken code. I found 3 different bugs with 1 feature, found a duplicate feature (their vibe coding missed the fact that the feature was already implemented), and the docs were wrong. Other features were ridiculously badly implemented. Reported them all, submitted multiple changes. None were accepted. Their repo was a hellscape of AI-generated issues and AI-generated PRs; I think mine was the only one written by a human. This was a month and a half ago.
Google is one of the most valuable corporations in the world, yet even they shipped a turd of an app to real customers and can't even take a bug fix. I think AI coding might be cooked.
It's a vibe coded mess, really depressing from such a large company. You can tell it's AI-driven because they keep adding new useless features but not improving the UX or bug fixing the existing ones.
One simple example is you can use @ to reference filenames - but the file list is cached and never updates. Ask Gemini to split a file into two files, then type @ and the new files will never appear. Those kind of extremely basic bugs.
But hey, the text has gradient colours...