# Using Gemini CLI as an AI Coding Copilot

DevFeed: [Using Gemini CLI as an AI Coding Copilot](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/my-co-pilot-is-an-ai-agent-and-it-s-a-game-changer-26126.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://medium.com/@yonatanvlevin/my-co-pilot-is-an-ai-agent-and-its-a-game-changer-c1118bb90245?source=rss-8735065c2497------2>)

Author: Yonatan (Yoni) Levin

Published: 2025-06-25T15:27:03Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Stories by Yonatan V. Levin on Medium](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/stories-by-yonatan-v-levin-on-medium.md>)

Topics: [AI Agent](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-agent.md>), [AI Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-development.md>), [genai](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/genai.md>)

Tags: [ai-agent](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-agent.md>), [ai-development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-development.md>), [co-pilot](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/co-pilot.md>), [devtools](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/devtools.md>), [gemini](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gemini.md>), [gemini-cli](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gemini-cli.md>), [genai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/genai.md>), [llm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/llm.md>)

## AI overview

The author introduces an opinion piece about using Gemini CLI for software development, drawing on work at a startup that uses LLMs and other AI technologies.

## Source excerpt

After a long break and a lot of life happening all at once, I'm back. Why? Because so much exciting stuff has happened that I just need to spit it out. It's going to be a long article, so prepare a good cup of coffee & a couple of cookies. Today, we're diving deep into something that I believe is the future of how we build software: the Gemini CLI. At least, until the next amazing thing comes along and reshapes our industry all over again. :) The Backstory: A New Mission and a Brick Wall For those who don't know me, my name is Yonatan, but friends call me Yoni. My career has been a wild ride: from low-level hardware development to leading Android teams, then switching to the backend to build the Public API for monday.com, and finally, leading AI development with the explosion of GenAI. Someone once joked that my career is just a series of abbreviations: Android -> API -> AI. About a year ago, after an incredible six-year journey, I left monday.com. After taking some time to breathe, I teamed up with two amazing people, Limor and Eyal, to start a new adventure: a startup called Wisdom. Our mission is to help people become wiser and happier by transforming how they interact with the profound knowledge tucked away in self-development books. We want to transform passive reading into an active, life-changing experience, bridging the gap between knowing something and truly living it. A few weeks ago, we launched our first closed alpha version with a chosen book authors. Our tech stack is a beast: various LLMs, Knowledge Graphs, audio models, and a ton of custom heuristics. And, of course, the standard stuff -- Node.js servers and React for our websites. We started, as most do, with a prototype. Something to show investors and our first potential customers. But I hit a brick wall. Hard. Despite my vast experience, my front-end knowledge was practically zero. I knew some basic HTML and CSS, but that was it. How was I, a backend and AI guy, supposed to build the face of our pro