I agree with you at this point. Even though Google is performing well on benchmarks and releasing impressive models like World Models Genie 3, the Gemini CLI suggestions/changes feel overly formulaic. Almost like its priorities are that of an OCD coder that cares more about tabs vs spaces instead of building a useful feature. For example, in a recent project, Google CLI spent all of my token allotment for that day on trivial tasks like tweaking ESLint configs or modularizing code that didn't need modularization.

In contrast, Claude Code seems to interpret my prompts better and helps me ship real product features for users.

Maybe it’s a system prompt issue. Its likely my prompting causing the problem. But Claude Code seems to understand my intent better.