alt Hacker NewsThere'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.
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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.
I think native apps are critical infrastructure in AI development particularly around agents. The truth is there’s no good native interaction layer for custom agents. If you want to wire up and self host an agent that has access to anything ever your only option is a janky port to telegram or Slack. I’ve been building vessels.app because I think it’s the missing piece to agent interaction. I need testers if anyone is interested!
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.
They only fixed stopping the model mid-generation losing the entire session pretty recently.
The Gemini apps suck.
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.