I'll start:

Never commit directly to `main` - always use feature branches

I get about an hour per day with Gemini 2.5 Pro for free in Gemini CLI, then it downgrades to flash model.

Awesome! I’m curious how is the team you built these models with? Is it great?

Heh, what could they possibly say in answer to this? The team is full of assholes? :-D

Its hard to tell over the web whether things are sarcastic or not so excuse me if I misread the intent.

At Google I've found my colleagues to be knowledgeable, kind, and collaborative and I enjoy interacting with them. This is not just the folks I worked on this project with, but previous colleagues in other teams as well. With this particular product I've been impressed by the technical knowledge folks I worked directly with, and their contribution both improved the model's capability and my own.

I think it was a joke about you saying the team was great twice in one line.

Seems the team and working conditions worth mentioning it twice, nonetheless.

Good there are places to work with normal knowledge culture, without artificial overfitting to “corporate happiness” :)

You might find this repo helpful, it compares popular coding tools by hours with top-tier LLMs like Claude Sonnet: https://github.com/inmve/free-ai-coding

My Gemini CLI quota for Gemini 2.5 Pro gets used up way faster than the ~100 h/day math. I’m seeing <1 hour of coding before it auto-switches to Flash. Anyone else experiencing it?

I haven’t personally run into the fallback to Flash (probably because I mostly use Claude Code now). Curious if others using Gemini CLI are seeing the same: does the switch to Flash happen after less than an hour of coding with Gemini 2.5 Pro? Going to dig a bit and see if this is a common pattern.

Yes, it does switch in less than an hour.