Gemini CLI impressed me
I tried the new Gemini CLI during the weekend and in a couple of hours, while I was preparing breakfast and watching a video, I managed to put together a Chrome Extension that can create playlists with audio resources referenced in sites you visit:
https://github.com/argenkiwi/audini
I had been postponing the rewrite of a similar extension I wrote a long time ago that targetted Manifest v2:
https://github.com/argenkiwi/extereo
I just couldn't be bothered, and the fact that Manifest v3 killed audio playback in the background didn't motivate me to put any effort into it. But now that Google is burning money to get us hooked into their AI tools, I thought it would be good to use Gemini CLI to recreate the project.
It went surprisingly well. Before the kids got up, I had a working extension. The few issues I encountered had to do with restrictions specific to Chrome Extension and I believe it was the Flash model that introduced them. Pro was doing a neat job at the beginning but I must have used up my quota by the 5th prompt (I used 10).
2025-06-30 · 10 months ago