Comment by WhitneyLand

Wow, this is rough. Gemini Cli was already losing and it’s now being replaced by something they’re saying doesn’t yet have feature parity. Doesn’t seem likely to inspire defections from competitors.

One could argue coding is only a use case and that their models are still killing it overall. However agents are strategic across the board and coding agents are at the forefront. They’ve already lead to new products like CoWork and it’s easy to understand why Google should be doing everything possible to catch up.

Surprised they’re not trying to entice developers away with more heavily subsidized subscription plans. Maybe it’s because as some say those days are ending and soon we’ll all be paying per token. Or maybe it would just put too much of a strain on available compute.