cookbook

Apparently, you can make a request to 2.5 flash to not use thinking, but it will still sometimes do it anyways, this has been an issue for months, and hasn't been fixed by model updates: https://github.com/google-gemini/cookbook/issues/722

https://github.com/google-gemini/cookbook/blob/a916686f95f43... They say there's no magic prompt but I'd start with their default since there is usually some format used to improve performance with posttraining with tasks like this

One major takeaway that matches my own investigation is that Gemini 2.0 still materially struggles with bounding boxes on digital content. Google has published[1] some great material on spatial understanding and bounding boxes on photography, but identifying sections of text or digital graphics like icons in a presentation is still very hit and miss. -- [1]: https://github.com/google-gemini/cookbook/blob/a916686f95f43...