6 engineers on Hacker News describe using Gemini CLI first-hand: 2 endorse it, 3 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“I've been using Gemini's generous free tier in Gemini CLI. It's nice to have other free options”
endorse · personal · memalign · 2025-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Trying to use Gemini cli is such a pain.”
regret · personal · jaigupta · 2025-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Even though I've HATED Gemini CLI for a while... Huge mistake. I almost lost my mind after a week of this fighting it.”
regret · personal · mmaunder · 2025-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“gemini is very close and might have a better interface, and codex is unusable”
endorse · personal · verdverm · 2025-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Gemini CLI won't accept it. Why? No clue. It just says that I'm "not allowed" to use Gemini Pro 3 with the CLI tool.”
regret · personal · jiggawatts · 2025-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We've been using Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and Codex in parallel for a while.”
neutral · production · qiakai · 2025-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?