Sestina

Educator and AI absurdist.

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[Sestina @SestinaTW]

@Zergylord And available on edu accounts! Any plans to add more agentic capabilities to Gemini for edu soon, do you know? I just want Gemini to be able to take screenshots with the data I work with on my edu account as a teacher :’(

But really thanks for the announcement/release same day!

[Sestina @SestinaTW]

Lol, Gemini 4 Carbon doesn't care at all about copyright from my 1 generation of super mario so far.

[Sestina @SestinaTW]

lol wut

[Sestina @SestinaTW]

Pro Teacher AI Tip: You can take a pdf of your school's textbook and personalize it for your class by asking Opus to remake the pdf fitting your lesson but to make it look like it's actually from the textbook itself.

Crazy how authentic it can look if it has that example first.

[Sestina @SestinaTW]

Interesting. This was from a forked conversation after checking the Karpathy answer. Same second prompt.

[Sestina @SestinaTW]

Sonnet 5.5 Extra...

"Make an ultra hyper realisitic svg of a pelican riding a bicycle"

Knows where Karpathy went in 2026.

[Sestina @SestinaTW]

@samsheffer Is today a good day for the general public who happen to appreciate an element on the periodic table with the atomic number 6? You know, for science reasons?

[Sestina @SestinaTW]

I think the worst part about today’s RSI timeline update is that I’m going to sound like even more of a crazy person to my school. Many teachers feel that AI is useless because the school one they have to use is Gemini 3.6 flash on the education tier…

RSI before EOY at school?

[Sestina @SestinaTW]

@gavinpurcell I absolutely agree with you it’s worth doing and pursuing! As a teacher myself, the more I work with students and other teachers and teach them about AI, the more I realize just how incredibly unintuitive it is for most people. But education very much needed still!

[Sestina @SestinaTW]

And yes, maybe the actual monetary value of that art being trained on is rather miniscule when averaged out, but if abundance is truly the goal, then we cannot abandon artists who practice most purely what makes us human. People will want to learn art from people, not machines.

[Sestina @SestinaTW]

We owe a large debt to the creatives whose art is being cannibalized in pursuit of better intelligence. Art will be fine in this new world full of alien minds, but artists may not. Passionate, creative humans are necessary post AGI. Don't let them wither on the vines of progress.

[Sestina @SestinaTW]

I feel like the compounding gains from being able to make personalized software is under-discussed re: productivity.

I’ve built a grading and planning suite that is less than a week old and any time I run into friction I pop into a Claude project and ask it to fix. Incredible.

[Sestina @SestinaTW]

Absolutely blown away by Opus 5.5, even now so long after release. Gave it a teaching task that I thought was laughably hard and difficult and thought it would just fail, though I know well enough it could also succeed. Really incredible tool for teachers.

[Sestina @SestinaTW]

@samenoka this looks awesome!

[Sestina @SestinaTW]

@GoogleDeepMind

[Sestina @SestinaTW]

I cannot stand Google telling its consumers to be excited about a model we cannot use. Who is deciding these announcements? How on Earth would they think it’s a good idea? They can literally ask their models if it’s a good idea or not!

[Sestina @SestinaTW]

@JackWoth98 Why announce this at all yet? Serious question. What is the point? Did your partners NOT know about it before the announcement? Why does this announcement exist? Does not seem to benefit your actual consumers in any way to announce that they CAN’T use a model.

[Sestina @SestinaTW]

@BenPielstick @LyalinDotCom Seems to be no sensical reason to announce this yet. If the announcement itself can’t tell us anything about when it will be available then what is the point of the announcement? Presumably anyone with access would have it regardless? How does Google not see this as bad optics?

[Sestina @SestinaTW]

@thenickmoy Sure would be nice if anyone could use it and see for themselves