Back in April, I wrote about the verticalization of coding agents by comparing OpenAI’s Codex and Claude Code . Since then, I haven’t really used Codex — Claude Code just keeps getting better and better. But now there’s a new contender in the mix: Google’s own Gemini CLI , which (as the name implies) is powered by Gemini 2.5 Pro . Gemini CLI is very similar in usage to the other two, with one potential advantage (or at least I hope so): it should be an expert in all things Google and Google Cloud. That’s important to me, since I host everything in Google Cloud. That said, the real trigger for trying out Gemini CLI came from a different direction: Manus . Manus is a Perplexity-style, AI-powered workflow builder. I’m not entirely sure how to categorize it, but you can prompt it with complex tasks and it delivers structured documents. I’ve used it to create presentations and parts of a business plan, and I’ve found it surprisingly effective. Now, my website was built dur...