https://blog.google/technology/developers/gemini-code-assist-free/

Gemini Code Assist
for individuals (preview)

Google has launched a public preview of Gemini Code Assist — free for individual developers. It offers up to 180,000 code autocompletions per month / 6,000 per day, which is 90 times more than other free assistants (which typically offer 2,000).

It's available in Visual Studio Code, JetBrains IDE, and Android Studio. They've also integrated it into Firebase console. There's also a version for GitHub Apps that offers free code review for both public and private repositories.

Users should note that by default, the service collects data about your prompts, code, edits, and feature usage to improve its machine learning models. While there is an option to opt out of this data collection, the initial settings have data sharing enabled.

Based on my testing, Gemini Code Assist demonstrates strengths: rapid understanding of codebases and built-in search functionality, which significantly enhances access to up-to-date information. However, there are notable weaknesses – the absence of an agent mode that we've grown accustomed to in other tools. Instead of intelligently interacting with the file system, the chat simply generates code snippets that users must manually insert into the appropriate files.

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