Gemini

Gemini CLI Conductor Turns Review into a Structured Report

Google’s automated review update for Gemini CLI Conductor is worth paying attention to for a simple reason: it treats AI review as a structured verification step, not as another free-form chat.

Conductor’s new review mode evaluates generated code across multiple explicit dimensions:

• code quality
• plan compliance
• style and guideline adherence
• test validation
• security review

The output is a categorized report by severity, with exact file references and a path to launch follow-up work. That is an important product choice.

AI Agents and Google Slides: When Promise Meets Reality

I’ve been experimenting with AI agents to help create Google Slides presentations, and I’ve discovered something interesting: they’re great at the planning and ideation phase, but they completely fall apart when it comes to actually delivering on their promises.

The Promising Start

I’ve had genuinely great success using ChatGPT to help with presentation planning. I’ll start a conversation about my presentation topic, share the core material I want to cover, and ChatGPT does an excellent job of:

When AI Assistants Fail: The Meeting Scheduling Reality Check

I recently tried to use AI assistants to solve what should be a straightforward problem: scheduling a meeting with three other people at my office. We’re all Google Workspace users, so I figured this would be a perfect use case for AI—especially given all the hype about AI assistants being able to handle calendar management and scheduling.

Spoiler alert: both ChatGPT and Gemini failed spectacularly.

The ChatGPT Experience

I started with ChatGPT, thinking it would be able to help coordinate schedules. My request was simple: find a time that works for me and three colleagues for a meeting.