One of the really interesting findings was the median date when developers started using AI tools. They found it was April 2024, which corresponds fairly neatly to Claude 3 coming out and Gemini 2.5 coming out. This is really the dawn of the reasoning or thinking models, and around that same time, we got much better at tool-calling. For coding tasks, you really need to be able to leverage external information in order to problem solve,
Traditional AI coding assistants often require switching contexts, opening new applications, or navigating complex interfaces. Gemini CLI eliminates these friction points by bringing Gemini 2.5 Pro directly to developers.