Then I hit the magic Gemini button and asked (more or less) "Make me a Google Slides presentation based on this document"
Gemini (paraphrasing): "Oh, sorry, I can't create new documents in Google Drive".
OK, I create a new blank Google Slides document. I press the magic Gemini button. After some preamble prompt BS, I paste my "Slides" document content, and ask it to create me some slides.
Gemini (paraphrasing): "Oh, sorry, I can only work on one slide at a time".
WTF? I go to a different frontier LLM, I ask it to make me a PPTX file from my description (which I downloaded from Google docs as markdown). After a few minutes I have a nice PPTX file. I upload that to Google Drive and open it. Google converts it to Slides. NOW, finally, I have the joy of improving one slide at a time with Gemini.
Why does my workflow suck so bad here? There must be a better way! Please help me HN.
I'm also keen to hear what are some actual cool tricks that do work with Gemini and/or frustrations others have had. Let loose.
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