Gemini Code Assist

“Gemini 2.5 JUST took the lead. Most don't know how good it is. Google models have sucked for a while and just came out punching hard over the last month. It's gonna take people a while to see it. Most of us are locked into our workflow at this point. I will try CodeAssist on my next project though. If I could start projects free on Bolt and complete them on CodeAssist, it'd take my vibecoding bill from $100+/mo to $0/mo. Wishful thinking...”

“its really bad, they should have atleast copied what others have implemented, the interaction, doesn't understand what's happening simply without feeding it to the file level, it can not work without an open project, simply garbage, its frustrating to be honest, let me just pay for windsurf and cursor.”

“I like using Gemini Code Assist because it can generate boilerplate code and useful snippets quickly, which saves me a lot of time and effort. It speeds up my development process by reducing redundant tasks and helps me avoid digging through thousands of pages of documentation. I also find the context-aware code suggestions especially helpful, since they show what the code is for and make it easier to understand the purpose and functionality of certain functions. The explanations and debugging c”

“Gemini code assistant is itself the best, i have Gemini Pro Subscription, ability to answer to the techinical code queries helps a lot. It not only helps to solve the issue but it also explains the issue and explain in detail what needs to be done. Just select the part of code which needs to be corrected and improved and write prompt in plugin, it deeply thinks and provides the result, best thing is after processing it shows where the changes are done with green highlighted and asks wheather use”

“Honestly, what I love most is that it actually gets out of your way. Most assistants feel like a chatty intern you have to constantly manage, but Gemini feels like a partner who’s already read the whole room. ​The 2-million token window is the real MVP. I can point it at an entire massive monorepo and it just knows—no more "copy-pasting" context. It catches those "butterfly effect" bugs where a change in your API breaks a random helper five folders away. It’s less about autocomplete and more abo”

“its really bad, they should have atleast copied what others have implemented, the interaction, doesn't understand what's happening simply without feeding it to the file level, it can not work without an open project, simply garbage, its frustrating to be honest, let me just pay for windsurf and cursor.”

“It maybe free but way too primitive to be taken seriously it can not compete with Cursor and Winsurf (It can do multi file updates/create with a single prompt). It can barely compete with Codeium extensions or Tabnine”

“I did, it’s really basic. It’s just chat, no agent. You can’t apply diff when it suggests code (only copy or insert somewhere). you don’t control the context, it simply use the file that are already open in vs code. It got upgraded to gemini pro 2.5 and you have 240 requests per day for free, that’s the only good part.”