This feels like some sort of weird Claude astroturfing. Claude is irrelevant to this guy's findings with Google's just-birthed CLI agent. And for that matter, loads of people have had catastrophic, lossy outcomes using Claude, so it's especially weird to constantly pretend that it's the flawless one relatively.
Their post-mortem of how it failed is equally odd. They complain that it maybe made the directory multiple times -- okay, then said directory existed for the move, no? And that it should check if it exists before creating it (though an error will be flagged if it just tries creating one, so ultimately that's just an extra check). But again, then the directory exists for it to move the files to. So which is it?
But the directory purportedly didn't exist. So all of that was just noise, isn't it?
And for that matter, Gemini did a move * ../target. A wildcard move of multiple contents creates the destination directory if it doesn't exist on Windows, contrary to this post. This is easily verified. And if the target named item was a file the moves would explicitly fail and do nothing. If it was an already existing directory, it just merges with it.
Gemini-cli is iterating very, very quickly. Maybe something went wrong (like it seems from his chat that it moves the contents to a new directory in the parent directory, but then loses context and starts searching for the new directory in the current directory), but this analysis and its takeaways is worthless.
Their post-mortem of how it failed is equally odd. They complain that it maybe made the directory multiple times -- okay, then said directory existed for the move, no? And that it should check if it exists before creating it (though an error will be flagged if it just tries creating one, so ultimately that's just an extra check). But again, then the directory exists for it to move the files to. So which is it?
But the directory purportedly didn't exist. So all of that was just noise, isn't it?
And for that matter, Gemini did a move * ../target. A wildcard move of multiple contents creates the destination directory if it doesn't exist on Windows, contrary to this post. This is easily verified. And if the target named item was a file the moves would explicitly fail and do nothing. If it was an already existing directory, it just merges with it.
Gemini-cli is iterating very, very quickly. Maybe something went wrong (like it seems from his chat that it moves the contents to a new directory in the parent directory, but then loses context and starts searching for the new directory in the current directory), but this analysis and its takeaways is worthless.