Show HN: A Deep Research MCP Agent (and pitfalls I hit along the way)

Re:Show HN: A Deep Research MCP Agent (and pitfalls I hit al... by luckydata on Friday September 12, 2025 @03:30PM (#45225753)

Gemini is great, it's just incredibly clumsy at tool use and that's why it fails so often in practice. I'm looking forward to the next version, it will for sure address it, it's a big issue internally too (I'm a recent xoogler).

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Re:Show HN: A Deep Research MCP Agent (and pitfalls I hit al... by koakuma-chan on Friday September 12, 2025 @03:54PM (#45226025)

I'm excited for the next version!

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Re:Show HN: A Deep Research MCP Agent (and pitfalls I hit al... by PantaloonFlames on Friday September 12, 2025 @04:26PM (#45226354)

Can you elaborate on “clumsy at tool use”?

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Re:Show HN: A Deep Research MCP Agent (and pitfalls I hit al... by luckydata on Friday September 12, 2025 @09:17PM (#45228475)

have you ever witnessed how sometimes Gemini makes multiple attempts at writing a file only to give up and start chanting "I'm worthless...".

That's tool use failure :)

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Re:Show HN: A Deep Research MCP Agent (and pitfalls I hit al... by reachableceo on Friday September 12, 2025 @04:46PM (#45226571)

Yes it really is horrible at using tools. Codex is way better (even better than Claude code ). Gemini is great at doing audits and content (though I’ve switched to codex for everything all in one).

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