Assisted by Antigravity 2.0 and Gemini 3.5 Flash.
Codex and Claude Code are my bread and butter tools, but I keep my $25/mo Gemini subscription and keep tabs on its progress.
They came out with an unabashedly clone of OpenAI's Codex. In their global demo showing off Antigravity, a screen shot clearly shows a folder named Codex. That's actually a good thing. Steal from the best.
I've always liked Gemini models for conversation, but they have not been top tier for coding and certainly not agentic coding. They've made great progress. As far as I'm concerned - one of my favorite YouTubers thinks they still suck. Try for yourself.
https://nginx.leebasehome.com/rogue-ai/
I used Antigravity and the new model as one of the adversarial reviewers for the Sci Fi serial I created. It was more heavy on praise by default. Still, quite competent and very speedy. You can fix the glazing by prompting more specifically.
Then I had it create the web page for the book - which you can see in the link above. It was able to continue on this existing web site to add a new module, keep the visual consistency, and put my markdown episode files into html.
Gemini wasn't involved in the local model creation of the audio versions. But I tasked it very broadly to add the audio files to the website with the ability to stream. It figured out a way to do so, downloaded and installed software into the docker container, updated the web pages adding a click to listen. Try it out.
I then asked for advice on cloudflare setup and it guided me on adding caching for the m4b files.
I experimented with its ability to do local linux admin. I told it to be a Linux consultant and do a complete review of my system. I had to give it permission to do stuff a BUNCH of times, but the end result was a report that had some actions I needed to take for performance and security. It also wrote a shell script to enact those fixes.
I might be able to give up my monthly Warp subscription - which I use solely to be my sysadmin on Linux, Mac and Windows.
I then had it do a security review of my self hosted web. Yes I was using cloudflare which helps but it did find a couple things. I'm not going to delineate those here, they have been fixed. But something I did with AI for a different purpose left me vulnerable.
Google has a new $100 tier. I'm not ready to go for that, but the $25 tier earns its keep.
Google has some cool features others don't have like Notebook LLM. Their new Omni model isn't out yet but that looks to be amazing.
For now, ChatGPT/Claude earn my $100/mo. It's over kill for my use but the $20/mo is insufficient.
It really is a lot like having a staff to have agentic AI. It's a game changer in personal productivity.
