Tried Gemini CLI — 10 Million Tokens Consumed in 2 Hours!



This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by CharmPic

Gemini CLI can be installed on both Windows and WSL. I also hope Claude Code can be installed directly on Windows soon.

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I asked it to edit a certain project right away, but I encountered API errors, possibly due to congestion. Even when using the 2.5pro model, it was sometimes forcibly switched to 2.5flash.

While continuing the editing, the response stalled for over 5 minutes, forcing me to terminate the process manually. Afterward, I checked the token consumption and found that it had exceeded 2 million tokens!

The above error kept repeating endlessly!

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Despite this, I persevered. A process that takes about 5 minutes with Claude Code took 2 hours of continuous thinking and still didn’t finish, so I had to force stop it.

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Ten million tokens!? Seriously!?

Honestly, it still needs a lot of improvement before being practical for programming use.

By the way, I highly evaluate the Gemini model. Often, if I pass Claude Code’s output to Gemini, it suggests improvements and helps me a lot.

That’s why I was surprised by the current situation with the late-released Gemini CLI.

At the very least, I hope they release an update soon to prevent infinite loops.


This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by CharmPic