<ul data-eligibleForWebStory="false"><li>Vibe Coding is gaining popularity in the development world, prompting the author to experiment with Gemini CLI, a Vibe Coding tool along with Antropic, focusing on privacy.</li><li>Setting up Gemini CLI involves installing the correct Node version and the CLI itself, giving access to a chosen directory for source code.</li><li>The author used Gemini to create a project, encounter, and troubleshoot issues like package loading errors and API inconsistencies with Thunderbird.</li><li>Gemini CLI proved helpful in building a minimum viable product (MVP), fixing errors, adding features like tagging, but faced difficulties in complex tasks, which were improved by splitting code into smaller files.</li></ul>

I challenged Gemini CLI to write a non-trivial application - see what happened.

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