I use LLMs for tasks that don’t require heart or passion or creativity. Given how much my tech stack favors Google, it’s unsurprising that I use Gemini CLI. I found myself searching for gemini cli turn off witty messages. (I wasn’t sure where to start in the docs.)

The stop displaying clever messages while the CLI is working (or at least add a robust option for the user to tell it to stop) issue I found is Open but there’s a comment with a config suggestion:

Add this to ~/.gemini/settings.json:

    "accessibility": {
    "disableLoadingPhrases": true
  }

👍 It worked for me and I gave the comment its tenth upvote.

For a file this size, I like how gron renders the output:

# gron ~/.gemini/settings.json
json = {};
json.security = {};
json.security.auth = {};
json.security.auth.selectedType = "oauth-personal";
json.ui = {};
json.ui.accessibility = {};
json.ui.accessibility.disableLoadingPhrases = true;
json.ui.theme = "Ayu";

I have written at length on brie.dev about using gron for other purposes..

— Brie