Gemini Code NEW Agentic AI Coder By Google! Automate Coding! (Installation Guide)
AI Summary
Summary of “Gemini Code: AI-Powered Coding Tool”
- Introduction
- Overview of Claude Code and its capabilities as a command line tool for coding.
- Limitations: high cost of input and output tokens makes it less feasible for long-term projects.
- Gemini Code Introduction
- New AI-powered tool utilizing Google Gemini 2.5 Pro within the terminal.
- Supports various models and shows high performance in coding tasks.
- Offers an interactive chat session, markdown rendering, file operations, and system commands.
- Setting Up Gemini Code
- Installation can be done via Pippi or from source.
- Requires a Google account for API key setup via Google AI Studio:
- Must link to a billing account for functionality.
- Commands for installation and setting up API key provided.
- Interactive session initiation guided by command prompts.
- Usage and Capabilities
- Offers capabilities to create directories, edit files, and run commands.
- Demonstrated creation of a SAS landing page directly within the terminal.
- Not a complete coding solution; better suited for refactoring and debugging code snippets.
- Conclusion
- Independent tool developed as a hackathon project; not an official Google project.
- Further resources available through GitHub and developer’s Twitter links in the video description.