Curious why you use Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite instead of SAM/Moondream? Any specific workflows where it outperforms?
I've had pretty good luck having Gemini or Claude use SAM as a tool. Gemini is really good at identifying things in images, but it doesn't do a great job doing segmentation per se, but SAM on its own can't really decide what you need to segment.
Using it as part of an agentic CAD workflow, where the model needs to be able to selectively segment from parts of a user's image as it works on a project. Using OpenSCAD so being a general purpose model is very useful to me.