The other day I wrote up some notes for a presentation. Opened Google Slides, clicked the gemini button, pasted the notes in and asked it to make the slides. Nope; gemini can only modify a single slide at a time in Google Slides.
Pasted the same notes into claude, it wrote a pptx file, I imported that into Slides, job done.
Being integrated into the product doesn't always mean a better result.
Not being integrated can be an advantage because it gives you the freedom to think outside the box.
Meanwhile an AI engineer embedded into an incumbent slide app team has to ask permission and get cross functional alignment for every little feature. And deal with neckbeard tech leads lecturing them on what the right architecture is
Well I sure hope that the gemini developers don't have access to agentic development tools because they might read this comment, build the multi slide editing feature using 450M tokens and ship it yesterday removing that Claude edge forever.
I hate that I am defending apple here but Microslop has been pushing a garbage tacked on integration of AI into Windows.
By all accounts of the last 20 years of Apple, they are much much better at integrating different services into one fluid system.
The other day I wrote up some notes for a presentation. Opened Google Slides, clicked the gemini button, pasted the notes in and asked it to make the slides. Nope; gemini can only modify a single slide at a time in Google Slides.
Pasted the same notes into claude, it wrote a pptx file, I imported that into Slides, job done.
Being integrated into the product doesn't always mean a better result.