I have found something Gemini is relatively good for. I asked it, step by step, to explain to me how to setup a Python program to run as a command line tool, and it did it. It took a little prompting to get it to explain wrapper scripts and virtual environments. Its initial answer didn’t fully answer the question, and its second answer required several steps to run the tool when I wanted one. However, with some prompting I got it to answer all my questions and show me what I needed to do. It didn’t write the code for me, but it was like having a more experienced Python developer sitting over my shoulder and answering my questions. Pretty helpful.

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