Computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash

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Post by swolpers » Wed, Jun 24, 2026, 5:21 PM UTC

Computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash
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Re: Computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash

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Post by satvikpendem » Wed, Jun 24, 2026, 5:40 PM UTC

There's still no MCP support in the Gemini app, which is very useful to get various pieces of info as a user just via chatting. For example I recently wanted to get an Airbnb and wanted to filter by specific criteria including house image analysis and Gemini couldn't do it so I had to do it in Codex.

Re: Computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash

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Post by tonyrice » Wed, Jun 24, 2026, 5:48 PM UTC

satvikpendem wrote: post #2

There's still no MCP support in the Gemini app, which is very useful to get various pieces of info as a user just via chatting. For example I recently wanted to get an Airbnb and wanted to filter by specific criteria including house image analysis and Gemini couldn't do it so I had to do it in Codex.

This is why I don't always use the official Gemini Web app. Lately I've found that it's more useful to utilize a CLI. I'm looking forward to the day they add MCP in the web.

Re: Computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash

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Post by airstrike » Wed, Jun 24, 2026, 5:57 PM UTC

Computer use is such a terrible idea. It's slow, insecure, error prone, expensive.

I guess if you're trying to get people to tokenmaxx it may look like a valid strategy, but ain't no way this will be delightful to users.

I think it's a symptom of just not understanding how LLMs should interface with the OS because we're still in their early days.

Eventually there'll be an iPhone moment for the ergonomics of LLM usage outside of coding

Re: Computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash

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Post by mlmonkey » Wed, Jun 24, 2026, 5:59 PM UTC

It's funny how in their own graph, https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/ima... Gemini 3.5 Flash is beat hands down by both Opus 4.8 and GPT 5.5, and yet the graph is drawn as if Gemini wins ... :-D

Re: Computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash

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Post by anticorporate » Wed, Jun 24, 2026, 6:01 PM UTC

satvikpendem wrote: post #2

There's still no MCP support in the Gemini app, which is very useful to get various pieces of info as a user just via chatting. For example I recently wanted to get an Airbnb and wanted to filter by specific criteria including house image analysis and Gemini couldn't do it so I had to do it in Codex.

Yeah, it seems like this is the biggest missing feature from the Gemini ecosystem.

If I can't connect MCP, there's really no selling point for me to use Gemini from my watch, car, smart speaker, etc. If I'm already bound to using my own front end, then I'm only evaluating Gemini as a model/API, at which point it has many competitors that may be cheaper or better fit for the task.

Re: Computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash

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Post by sheept » Wed, Jun 24, 2026, 6:03 PM UTC

mlmonkey wrote: post #5

It's funny how in their own graph, https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/ima... Gemini 3.5 Flash is beat hands down by both Opus 4.8 and GPT 5.5, and yet the graph is drawn as if Gemini wins ... :-D

It highlights the Gemini models blue since that's what the article is about. The bar heights seem consistent with the values.

Re: Computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash

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Post by thejaycampbell » Wed, Jun 24, 2026, 6:06 PM UTC

anticorporate wrote: post #6

satvikpendem wrote: post #2

There's still no MCP support in the Gemini app, which is very useful to get various pieces of info as a user just via chatting. For example I recently wanted to get an Airbnb and wanted to filter by specific criteria including house image analysis and Gemini couldn't do it so I had to do it in Codex.

Yeah, it seems like this is the biggest missing feature from the Gemini ecosystem. If I can't connect MCP, there's really no selling point for me to use Gemini from my watch, car, smart speaker, etc. If I'm already bound to using my own front end, then I'm only evaluating Gemini as a model/API, at which point it has many competitors that may be cheaper or better fit for the task.

agreed... this is where they lost me too

Re: Computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash

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Post by beastman82 » Wed, Jun 24, 2026, 6:10 PM UTC

No UI like their competitors Claude CoWork or Codex. This is vaporware

Re: Computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash

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Post by pregseahorses » Wed, Jun 24, 2026, 6:15 PM UTC

tonyrice wrote: post #3

satvikpendem wrote: post #2

There's still no MCP support in the Gemini app, which is very useful to get various pieces of info as a user just via chatting. For example I recently wanted to get an Airbnb and wanted to filter by specific criteria including house image analysis and Gemini couldn't do it so I had to do it in Codex.

This is why I don't always use the official Gemini Web app. Lately I've found that it's more useful to utilize a CLI. I'm looking forward to the day they add MCP in the web.

Gemini CLi now requires antigravity subscription..