In my experience, Claude Code is scary good. Gemini CLI is just plain dumb and not worth the time.

Gemini CLI in its current state is _dangerous_.

I asked it to examine a codebase and it went lightning-fast into full refactoring mode and started "fixing" stuff - while profusely apologising because it couldn't get the code to compile :D

Currently the best way to use Gemini CLI is to instruct Claude to use it when examining large codebases. Gemini investigates -> generates markdown summary -> Claude uses summary to direct itself without wasting context.

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we're very focused on UX and less so on LLM performance. we use all the same system prompts/config as claude code

that said people do observe better performance because of out of the box LSP support - edit tools return errors and the LLM immediately fixes them

  > we're very focused on UX and less so on LLM performance

Could you spin that as an actual advantage? For people like me who use VIM, have a preference about filesystems, and backup phones via adb?