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Using Gemini In Search For A Task (reply)

FSK — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 23:44:59 +0000

Yeah, it looks like Gemini in search is helpful as an advanced Stackoverflow that isn't rude to you.

Gemini Antigravity IDE was awful because:

- It has to rescan all your code every time you restart the editor, burning tokens.
- It was dumb enough to scan files ending in ~ when I had edited them in emacs. (I had permissions set to strict so it was telling me what it scanned.) This also burns tokens.
- It got stuck in loops, further burning tokens.
- The editor had so many obvious bugs that I couldn't believe it was seriously released as a project.
- When it finds a bug, it completely refactors everything rather than just fixing the bug. Example: Gemini in search decided to change the name of my class, but I just ignored that part and fixed its output. Antigravity IDE would change my code and update every class name.

Gemini in search is a lot better. Google caches the context so you don't have to restart conversations! I'm only cut+paste code, so it doesn't get stuck in a loop trying to scan my entire hard drive or stuck in a loop of trying the same thing and failing.

Using Gemini In Search For A Task (reply)

JoFrance — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 23:25:49 +0000

Gemini is a real help in this case. You don't have to bother with the official documentation and can learn from what AI does. Most technical documentation I've read isn't clear and you end up having to research whatever it said further. Its tedious and aggravating. If Gemini eliminates that, its a Godsend.

Using Gemini In Search For A Task (reply)

FSK — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 22:56:45 +0000

The problem is that I don't know how to write a GDExtension, and the official documentation is confusing. Gemini somehow has the ability to read the Godot source and not just the documentation, so it's giving me better answers.

If I knew how to write a GDExtension, it would be way faster to just write it. Since it's a learning exercise for me, I can just ask Gemini. Once I get something that works, I can edit it, since I still mostly understand the code.

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JoFrance — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 22:38:57 +0000

That seems like a lot of work to go through and you still have to fix it in the end. Is it an actual time saver compared to doing it yourself? It should be able to understand what it's implementing. Maybe if it did there wouldn't be so many errors, but I don't know if that's even possible.

Using Gemini In Search For A Task

FSK — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 17:16:39 +0000

I used Gemini in Google search to finish a complex coding task for me, porting a library to a Godot GDExtension.

The AI gets nothing right on the first try. The workflow is:

- The AI generates something that doesn't work but is sort of right.
- I cut + paste the error message.
- The AI fixes that bug, but now there's a new bug.
- Repeat the cycle 20 times, eventually it finally works.

The AI doesn't seem to really actually understand the thing it is implementing. What's it's doing is generating slop, then it looks at the error message to fix that specific error.

However, now that I see the end results, I actually do understand what it generated, so now I can fix or improve it on my own.

That's what happens under the hood of the coding agents. It's doing a cycle of code, compile, fix error, repeat. It runs the cycle until it gets something that works.