Pair Programming with Gemini CLI

May 10, 2026Interactive Terminal

We are moving beyond "Copilots" that suggest lines of code. We are entering the era of "Agents" that can navigate your filesystem, run builds, and fix bugs autonomously.

Here is a recording of a session where I asked the Gemini CLI agent to refactor a legacy Python script into a proper class-based structure.

user@devbox: ~/legacy-app

The agent didn't just write the code; it created a test file, ran it, saw a failure, fixed it, and then confirmed the pass. This loop is the future of CLI interactions.