The last time I was locked out of Claude Code I gave gemini cli a try. 10 minutes and lots of weird scrolling and screen flashing later, and it kept trying to add and remove the same function from the same file over and over, in a loop, until it exhausted its credits and demanded I upgrade.
What it excels at (because of its massive 1M token context) is code reviews. As a reference the French version of The Three Musketeers is about 700k tokens. A ~440 odd page book.
You can shove any codebase at it and ask questions about how it works and it's all in its context at the same time with no RAG magic.
