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Google's Gemini has fallen out of the recommended AI tools because the company still lacks a clear agentic computing product comparable to Codex, ChatGPT Work, or Cowork.

Gemini is no longer on Mollick's recommended list because Google doesn't have a clear entry in the Codex/ChatGPT Work/Cowork category for agentic computing. ✦ AI generated

Author · Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-07-27 · original ↗

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Gemini has fallen off Ethan's list, since Google still doesn't have a clear entry in the Codex/ChatGPT Work/Cowork category.

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Anthropic's compute team, staffed by former Google employees, spotted a supply dislocation and locked in a huge TPU allocation before Google's own leadership grasped how much demand its AI business (and Anthropic's) would generate, forcing Google to scramble back to TSMC for more capacity once it woke up.Dylan Patel · Dwarkesh Podcast · conf 65%

Evidence · 1

Gemini has fallen off Ethan Mollick's list of recommended AI tools because Google lacks a clear product in the agentic coding and computer-use category.Author · Simon Willison's Weblog · conf 95%

Context · 2

The most important shift in AI tool usage over the past year has been from conversational chat interfaces to agentic systems that can perform many hours of human work autonomously.Author · Simon Willison's Weblog · conf 80%The most important evolution in AI over the past year is the shift from conversational chat to agentic systems that can autonomously perform hours of human work.Author · Simon Willison's Weblog · conf 80%

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Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform is not a rebrand of Vertex AI but a substantive evolution that layers major new governance, identity, security, and scaling capabilities (like cryptographic agent identity) on top of what Vertex already provided.Riyaz Habibbhai · The TWIML AI Podcast · conf 85%