Grant Harvey

Taylor, we understand that this is your first in-depth interview about Gemini CLI and the origin story behind it.

Is that correct?

Yeah.

When you started at Google, did you already know you were going to build Gemini CLI?

Or was that something that kind of came together?

I didn't.

Actually, what is the rest of the day?

Is it conversations about what the code should be?

Is it getting permissions?

What do you do when you're not coding?

Right.

And the crazy thing about Gemini 3 Flash is that not only is it a faster model than Gemini 3, in a lot of ways it's a better coder, right?

So now you have a faster, better coder that you're having to try and use whenever you come up with a new idea to build.

It's like, I can build it insanely quickly.

It's so true.

Well, it can probably do more than the average person, right?

Because when I was a kid, I remember watching my dad pull up a terminal and do all these crazy commands in it, like CD, bash, all this stuff.

And I'm like, what does that even mean?

Why doesn't he just use the menu interface like a normal person?

But now with the command line terminal, you can tell the agent to do...