Gemini CLI: Google’s Challenge to AI Terminal Apps Like Warp

Half an hour before I attended Google’s press briefing announcing Gemini CLI — an “open source AI agent that brings the power of Gemini directly into your terminal” — I tuned into the live YouTube stream of Warp announcing its version 2.0 product. Warp, one of the original AI-focused terminal apps, was launching what it calls an “Agentic Development Environment” (yes, ADE instead of IDE).

I jumped straight from Warp’s announcement to Google’s briefing, and minutes in, I was wondering how Warp will compete. It’s a…