Ask HN: How useful is Gemini for Google Apps?
3 pointsby cobbzilla8 hours ago1 comment
  • aliayaz1128 hours ago
    I don't use it but probably chatgpt and claude are better for this type of work
    • cobbzilla6 hours ago
      yeah that’s the “different frontier LLM” I mentioned.

      Frontier LLMs are decent at making powerpoint files, but can I point it directly at gdrive and tell it write a slides doc? a slides doc I can open on the web, share, etc? maybe if I mount my gdrive locally with something like rclone?

      something to try next, but why oh why does google have to make it so hard. This feels like dealing with Windows in the 80s/90s

      • fragmede6 hours ago
        As companies start to reign in token budgets, how many tokens it takes to do a task a certain way becomes relevant. While I have no doubt computer-use on both ChatGPT and Claude can drive the browser to http://slides.new and click around to create what you want that way, given that there are libraries to write pptx files directly, it seems generating PowerPoint and having it import them to gdoc would be a more efficient use of tokens.