Christopher Philip Hebert

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2025-06-25

Google's Gemini CLI is polished. Now Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google have all given the CLI code assist a shot. Makes sense! These models are textual. The CLI is textual. Code is textual.

It's the perfect fit.

Fwiw, JetBrains Junie has gotten good enough that I'm not certain I need the CLI versions when I'm working on something entirely within the IDE.

The long-term differentiation is always going to be model quality.