Last time I used Gemini CLI it still couldn’t consistently edit a file. That was just a few weeks ago. In fact, it would go into a loop attempting the same edit, burning through many thousands of tokens and calls in the process, re-reading the file, attempting the same edit, rinse, repeat until I stopped it.
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The difference between 99% reliability and 100% reliability is huge in this case.
I misunderstood the problem then, I thought it would take only a few seconds for the LLM to issue the call, see the error, fix the call.
Last time I used Gemini CLI it still couldn’t consistently edit a file. That was just a few weeks ago. In fact, it would go into a loop attempting the same edit, burning through many thousands of tokens and calls in the process, re-reading the file, attempting the same edit, rinse, repeat until I stopped it.
I didn’t find it entertaining.
Big waste of context