Computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash

People using google’s models: am I holding it wrong or are the guardrails really overtuned?

I had the dubious pleasure of testing gemini of late and I kept running into refusals. How do I transfer a sim number from one provider to another? No. What should I consider when making backups on ntfs less prone to data loss and more bitrot resistant? No. Evaluate this piece of code? No.

I’m not sure if it’s cold feet from the mythos situation or what, but it reminds me of the dark days where you couldn’t use ai for much of anything. But then I go to chatgpt 5.5 and it does mostly everything I want outside of the usual cybersecurity boogeyman that you run into now and then.

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.

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

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

I wonder if it will be better at building TUI's. It has been absolutely abysmal at interacting with them and building them

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

Where is 3.5 pro?

performance is quite impressive given that its 3x cheaper than 5.5

Will it skip Ads lol