What happened?

There are instances where, when Gemini attempts an edit, the replacement originates in code it shouldn't touch.

Other times, it makes correct replacements but then modifies sections of code and re-enters them, which leads me to believe the edit tool isn't very good. It needs to focus on the code it's supposed to modify.

Suppose you have a 300-line code snippet. If you ask Gemini to modify a section, sometimes it modifies the entire code in parts, copies and pastes a section of code into different sections, and then Gemini modifies what you requested, but by modifying the entire code.

Other times, it randomly deletes entire sections of code. It's frustrating because the edit tool has been very bad for months. That's all I can say.

Additionally, GEMINI has trouble reading and making replacements in code with more than 300 lines.

What did you expect to happen?

Good Edits.

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CLI Version 0.28.0-nightly.20260128.adc8e11bb
Model auto-gemini-3
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