Google just killed Gemini CLI
Antigravity CLI takes over, and you've got until June 18 before the old one stops serving free/Pro/Ultra users.
Three things stand out to me.
First, this is the trust problem more than the tool problem. Most people seem to agree Gemini CLI wasn't great anyway. The anger is about the pattern. You can't build a workflow on something Google renames or buries every six months, and killedbygoogle.com is basically a meme at this point. Anthropic and OpenAI keep their stuff stable, and that's worth more than any single feature.
Second, the naming is a mess. They dropped the one name everyone recognizes for "Antigravity," and now there's Antigravity IDE, Antigravity 2.0, and Antigravity CLI, on top of Gemini the model, Vertex, Code Assist, and Google One. People genuinely can't tell what they're supposed to use.
Third, quieter but maybe the real story: it went from open source to closed. Gemini CLI was Apache 2.0. The new repo is a README and a gif. Hard not to read this as Google wanting more control over the harness.
Anyone actually migrated yet? Curious how the docs hold up in practice.
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