Comment by silverlight
17 hours ago
Google really can’t help themselves but to have some internal re-org kill off a public thing people are actively using. It’s honestly impressive how consistent they are.
17 hours ago
Google really can’t help themselves but to have some internal re-org kill off a public thing people are actively using. It’s honestly impressive how consistent they are.
The rest of out here watching usage and telemetry to decide where to invest, meanwhile, over at Google…
What if their telemetry shows very low usage? I've seen virtually no discussion of Gemini CLI online.
There's a fair amount of enterprise usage. It's a really good product, despite the Claude hype. Anthropic is a PITA to deal with, and it's slow as shit weekday morning Eastern time.
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Whats to discuss, it works, it does the job, cant complain.
There are 13,700 forks of its repo on Github.
If anything, I suspect closing the source for their coding agent may have been part of the goal.
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The usual playbook is they rename it a few times first, then they kill it.
And then later re-use the name for another product which is almost but not entirely unlike the original.
Sometimes it becomes 11 different chat applications among the way.
It's technically a chat application. Except you're chatting with an LLM instead of friends and family.
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Another tombstone in Google Graveyard soon [1].
[1] https://killedbygoogle.com/
Thanks
Even thought there are people using, it doesn’t mean they see a future in it. Google is the best when it comes to analytics and trends. If they see a product is expected to fail, which in this case it was, they simply kill it and move on instead of wasting resources saving a sinking ship.
Of course, something could’ve been improved, but that’s just how they operate.
I could be completely wrong though