I've been using Cursor for months now to build UserJot with Claude Sonnet and Opus, and it's been pretty solid. But I'm starting to hit its limits ...
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I literally just convinced my manager to approve the $200 Claude plan last week 😭 This timing hurts
don't let him know rsrs
😂 REKT
I don’t think this whole AI thing will establish itself
huh?
The "X just killed Y's pricing" framing comes around every few months, and the real takeaway is never "switch to the free one" - it's that single-provider lock-in is the actual risk. Gemini CLI being free today doesn't help if Google reprices or rate-limits it next quarter (which is exactly what happened to the others).
The durable position is provider-agnostic: treat models as interchangeable backends and route per task. Cheap/free model for the boilerplate bulk, premium model only where reasoning quality actually decides the outcome. Then a pricing shakeup at any one lab is a config change, not a migration. Good roundup.
Google AI is the "official AI" sponsor of DEV.... Go figure.
Don't know about anyone else, but Gemini CLI has been unusable for me the past hour.
Stuck in a timeout loop, even though it's saying it is switching from pro to flash.
I guess that's what happens when things are free.
Awesome post! It is wild how fast things are changing. That free tier from Gemini CLI is super generous, 1,000 requests a day is plenty for most devs. I am curious how long these crazy-good prices will stick around with so much competition now.
They’re burning money to buy market share. For sure it won’t last.
Working with it last week and a half(since it came out) and it rocks
This models are about use
The more you use it it gets better
Guess what.... Its going to kill claufld, sunce its google and its free
I didnt try open ai code tool yet
But for me gemini is more the enough....
I myself have a hard time deciding between Claude Code and Google’s Gemini CLI. From my experience, Opus 4 is indeed quite good. A few days ago, I heard someone comparing Cursor CLI and Claude Code—both using Sonnet 4. You might not believe it, but according to his comparison, Cursor CLI won by far.
I've been using Claude Code for a couple of weeks now.
In comparison, other coding AIs seem like neighborhood gossips: they confuse everything and solve nothing.
“It's the same strategy they used with Gmail vs Hotmail, Chrome vs Firefox, and countless other products.”
You are maybe thinking of Microsoft and Netscape? Hotmail and Firefox were also free lol