Matías Piña

Code + Art at Parsons

[Matías Piña @MatiasPina]

Visualization of a Lorenz Attractor made with @p5xjs. I followed @thecodingtrain's tutorial to begin with, and then added some of my own ideas to make it look prettier

[Clement Uwajeneza @cuwajeneza]

In 2017, I stepped onto the Facebook campus in Menlo Park. They took us to the Oculus VR lab first. A geeky engineer gave us a demo of the VR features and ended on the haptic gloves that let you "feel" virtual objects without touching anything real. Then he paused, voice almost reverent: “Imagine connecting anyone in the world… real social interaction… without ever leaving home.” The demo was amazing but I walked out with a strange feeling. This guy is "solving for humanity" and is excited about a world no longer needs physical human connection

We passed a long hall of developers. One guy—Black, friendly—leaned over his monitors and asked where the group of us (mostly Africans) was from. We chatted. His desk had big screens, half-eaten snacks, the faint smell of takeout lingering. His neighbor, paler watched curiously but, too timid to join. The desks were comfortable, the food smell everywhere, as it was available in every corner. It all felt… contained. Like this campus was its own sealed ecosystem, where the world outside was just data to optimize.

Fast-forward to 2020. I work at Andela, where we placed remote engineers with Silicon Valley teams. Some companies flew their leads over to meet the "remote" teammates in person. When they visited the Kigali campus I went to dinner with them. They were 5. Of this dinner I vividly remember 2 conversations. One guy launched into how "all humans are actually lactose intolerant after infancy… we're the only species that keeps drinking milk." They all nodded, confessed their own intolerances like it was a quirky universal truth. Then came the photos: a dog's birthday party. Balloons, cake, friends invited. The owner beamed like it was his kid's party. I love dogs. But something twisted in my chest. These are the people shaping the tools billions use every day—yet their version of care, connection, family… felt redirected, abstracted.

Now it's 2026, and Sam Altman says training an AI costs less than "raising a human"—because it takes "20 years of life and all the food you eat during that time before you get smart." He compared childhood—first steps, heartbreaks, scraped knees, bedtime stories, learning trust—to server racks and electricity bills. I think back to that VR promise of connection without leaving home… to offices smelling of food and isolation… to dogs celebrated like children while real human messiness gets optimized away

[Matías Piña @MatiasPina]

Made this one on a plane, 15 lines of p5.js

"One color, one shape."

#genuary2026 #genuary

[Matías Piña @MatiasPina]

It's crazy seeing the evolution of these tools, a couple years ago I built this experiment using Stable Diffusion and Mediapipe following a similar idea, and it feels like the tech has evolved so much since then.

[Trudy Painter @trudypainter]

Co-draw with Gemini 2.0 native image generation… from @alexanderchen and me

Doodling + AI is a magical → it really starts to feel like Gemini is *with you in the canvas

Link: https://t.co/rIhVRhs3Gd

[Matías Piña @MatiasPina]

@daboiinblue ctm

[Matías Piña @MatiasPina]

@daboiinblue La Anto tiene toda la razón

[Matías Piña @MatiasPina]

@daboiinblue Cuál es tu problema weón ajajajaja

[Matías Piña @MatiasPina]

@daboiinblue te odio

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

@PlanetaryGao 1 ATM

[Matías Piña @MatiasPina]

@daboiinblue Yesss, está buenísimo

[Matías Piña @MatiasPina]

@daboiinblue Lo prohibo

[Matías Piña @MatiasPina]

@daboiinblue Same vibe

[Matías Piña @MatiasPina]

@IsaOyarzoC Me vas a tener que contar todoo

[Matías Piña @MatiasPina]

@JlgzzMoran Harry es mi fashion icon, déjalo en paz 😞

[Matías Piña @MatiasPina]

@IsaOyarzoC Esooooo 🎉🥳

[Matías Piña @MatiasPina]

@IsaOyarzoC Soy literalmente yo y no me avergüenza admitirlo

[Matías Piña @MatiasPina]

@brzoconfrio Rancagüino de cartón

[Matías Piña @MatiasPina]

@Retamal847 https://t.co/3S5dKAciud efectivamente