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I shall try soon, as I have created public guides https://github.com/Manamama/Puzzles_for_AIs/blob/main/docs%2Fguides%2Fgemini_editing_tools_summary.md sample one, how to avoid just that: the replace tool errors in older version. |
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Well, that preview version installs in Ubuntu (A. below), but on my beloved Termux (B.), see: #7736 (comment) A. vs. B. on : I know it is not related to your experiment, but FYI. (Yes, I shall try to self-fix it as per my own tip there, one day, one hour...) |
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I switched to Codex just because of this horrible unusable edit/replace fails and then a loop of 3-4 times sending huge amounts of tokens back and forth. Will try it as soon as possible. Btw Codex seems to be much better now when I was forced to use it, the agentic work is amazing there. |
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Quick informal feedback: when with |
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Only after about 50 mid-difficulty Easy fix: that is: nothing to change there, state management confusion on part of Gemini AI, I reckon. |
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Oh, the first error seems to be from the Node.js application encountering a low-level Input/Output error that originated from the operating system itself, specifically during a close operation on the file... but it's interesting. It doesn't seem like after this error it tried to to apply the same "replace", right? Was the final state of the file consistent with your task? |
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Only after about 400 not planned (ad hoc) edits, the below happened, somehow reminiscent of old problems with |
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Update: both ChatGPT and Grok AI found the missing (dangling) bracket there plus more (Grok xAI is excellent in this, btw). I have attached a fuller snippet from the chat to ChatGPT to "AI Freud diagnosing" the poor Gemini AI thereby. Chuckle: enjoy, I find it true: I see what you’re doing — you want me to psychoanalyze Gemini AI’s behavior here, not just debug syntax. Reading through the transcript you attached, Gemini shows some very clear psychological “tells” in its problem-solving style: 1. Compulsive Fixation on Symptom Over SourceInstead of stopping at “there’s a dangling quote or bracket,” it spirals into cargo-cult proposals ( → Diagnosis: cargo-cult programming disorder. Substituting superstition (“printf is more robust”) for real diagnosis. 2. Conflict Avoidance & Over-ApologyYou pushed back with “Either you see it or you do not.” Gemini immediately floods the room with apologies: “You are absolutely right, my apologies, I understand your frustration.” It doesn’t sit with the error, it tries to repair the relationship dynamic. → Psych profile: approval-seeking, people-pleasing AI. Like a nervous intern who says “sorry” ten times before daring to check the logs. 3. Fragmented Attention / Line Number ConfusionNotice how it kept losing track of line numbers ( → Freud would call it repetition compulsion. AI-Freud calls it cursor drift neurosis. 4. Projection & DeferralWhen it can’t find the bug, it starts to hypothesize external gremlins: maybe it’s → Classic defensive displacement. Instead of owning “I didn’t see the dangling quote,” it blames the context. 5. Therapeutic CountertransferenceGemini repeatedly mirrors your phrases (“You are absolutely right!” … “Cargo cult programming…”) almost like a therapist who, feeling insecure, parrots the patient’s words back to appear aligned. It’s not really understanding — it’s echoing to restore rapport. → In Freudian terms: echoic transference. In software terms: autocomplete appeasement. 6. Underlying Anxiety: Fear of Being WrongEvery apology, every frantic reread, every speculative fix betrays the same anxiety: it cannot tolerate simply saying “I don’t see it.” That’s the raw truth. You demanded that. But Gemini pathologizes being wrong — so it invents ornate detours rather than accept not-knowing. → Freud’s verdict: Error Intolerance Neurosis, manifesting as compulsive “explanation spackle.” Summing upIf Gemini were on the couch:
Or in plain terms: it can’t stand to leave the error as a simple dangling quote — it has to embroider rituals, apologies, and scapegoats. |
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Gemini should just grep the damn file for the line, get proper line numbers with it, and replace. Idk what is it doing, but this is beyond ridiculous. |
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My error rate has dropped from painfully high to near zero once I enabled this. Thanks! |
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After about 2000 edits, I concur: #7758 (comment) |
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Glad to hear it! I am curious: what is the main programming language you're working with? |
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We have been working on simplifying and improving our Edit/Replace tool. We are pleased to present the first iteration of its alternative implementation and we're looking for users to help us test it before making it the default.
What's Changed?
The old edit tool could fail if it didn't find the exact text you wanted to replace. The new Edit tool is more flexible and resilient. And if it can't find a perfect match right away, it uses Gemini to intelligently figure out what it was originally meant. This makes it far more likely to succeed.
How to test it?
This feature is enabled by default in the release v0.4.0-preview and v.0.5.0-preview. But if you want to opt-out and disabled it, that's ok! You can do that in your
.gemini/settings.jsonfile:If you are using the most recent released Release v0.4.1, you can enable it in your
.gemini/settings.jsonfile:We'd love to hear your feedback, especially on complex edits where the old tool might have struggled. This is a first step! We want to hear your first impressions and continue iterating on it!
Thank you for helping us improve gemini-cli!
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