[satvikpendem]

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.

[anticorporate]

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.

[thejaycampbell]

agreed... this is where they lost me too

[mitchell_h]

I'm fairly convinced Claude's strongest point is the app. AI users aren't anywhere near as mature or smart as youtube/hn would have folks believe. The claude app is amazing for bridging that gap.

[dr_dshiv]

Didn’t it take them like 2 days to build the first one?

[dr_dshiv]

Didn’t it take them like 2 days to build it?

[solarkraft]

They only fixed stopping the model mid-generation losing the entire session pretty recently.

The Gemini apps suck.

[tonyrice]

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.

[pregseahorses]

Gemini CLi now requires antigravity subscription..

[singingtoday]

CLI doesn't work with my subscription..