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An upgraded dev experience in Google AI Studio

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Re: An upgraded dev experience in Google AI Studio

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The ability to seamlessly integrate generated images is fascinating. Although it currently takes too long to really work in a game or educational context.

As an experiment I just asked it to "recreate the early RPG game Pedit5 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedit5), but make it better, with a 1970s terminal aesthetic and use Imagen to dynamically generate relevant game artwork" and it did in fact make a playable, rogue-type RPG, but it has been stuck on "loading art" for the past minute as I try to do battle with a giant bat.

This kind of thing is going to be interesting for teaching. It will be a whole new category of assignment - "design a playable, interactive simulation of the 17th century spice trade, and explain your design choices in detail. Cite 6 relevant secondary sources" and that sort of thing. Ethan Mollick has been doing these types of experiments with LLMs for some time now and I think it's an underrated aspect of what they can be used for. I.e., no one is going to want to actually pay for or play a production version of my Gemini-made copy of Pedit5, but it opens up a new modality for student assignments, prototyping, and learning.

Doesn't do anything for the problem of AI-assisted cheating, which is still kind of a disaster for educators, but the possibilities for genuinely new types of assignments are at least now starting to come into focus.

Re: An upgraded dev experience in Google AI Studio

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The ability to seamlessly integrate generated images is fascinating. Although it currently takes too long to really work in a game or educational context. As an experiment I just asked it to "recreate the early RPG game Pedit5 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedit5 ), but make it better, with a 1970s terminal aesthetic and use Imagen to dynamically generate relevant game artwork" and it did in fact make a playable, r…

I love this, and as for AI-assisted cheating, I would make it such that the student can use any tool whatsoever under the sun, but then needs to do a live in-person presentation on it followed by 10 minutes of Q&A. Some are better bullshitters than others, but you'll still see a very clear difference between those who actually worked and those who had the work done for them.

Re: An upgraded dev experience in Google AI Studio

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The ability to seamlessly integrate generated images is fascinating. Although it currently takes too long to really work in a game or educational context. As an experiment I just asked it to "recreate the early RPG game Pedit5 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedit5 ), but make it better, with a 1970s terminal aesthetic and use Imagen to dynamically generate relevant game artwork" and it did in fact make a playable, r…

I love this, and as for AI-assisted cheating, I would make it such that the student can use any tool whatsoever under the sun, but then needs to do a live in-person presentation on it followed by 10 minutes of Q&A. Some are better bullshitters than others, but you'll still see a very clear difference between those who actually worked and those who had the work done for them.

Yes, I think this kind of combination is where higher ed is going to land. I've been talking to a colleague lately about how social skills and public speaking just got more important (and are things we need to focus on actually teaching). Likewise, I think self-directed, individualized humanistic research is currently not replicable by AI nor likely to be - for instance, generating an entirely new historical archive by conducting oral history interviews. Basically anything that involves operating in the physical world and deploying human emotional skills.

The unsolved issue is scale. 5-10 minute Q&As work well, but are not really doable in a 120 student class like the one I'll be teaching in the fall, let alone the 300-400 student classes some colleagues have.

Re: An upgraded dev experience in Google AI Studio

#14
Presumably Google AI Studio[1] and Google Firebase Studio[2] are made by different teams with very similar pitches, and Google is perfectly happy to have both of them exist, until it isn't:

- AI Studio: "the fastest place to start building with the Gemini API"

- Firebase Studio: "Prototype, build, deploy, and run full-stack, AI apps quickly"

[1] https://aistudio.google.com/apps

[2] https://firebase.google.com/

Re: An upgraded dev experience in Google AI Studio

#15

Presumably Google AI Studio[1] and Google Firebase Studio[2] are made by different teams with very similar pitches, and Google is perfectly happy to have both of them exist, until it isn't: - AI Studio: "the fastest place to start building with the Gemini API" - Firebase Studio: "Prototype, build, deploy, and run full-stack, AI apps quickly" [1] https://aistudio.google.com/apps [2] https://firebase.google.com/

Wait until you hear about Google Vertex AI Studio.

Re: An upgraded dev experience in Google AI Studio

#16
Did anyone else notice the weird subtle typos in the output?

"Te harsh jolt of the cryopod cycling down rips you"

"ou carefully swing your legs out"

I find this really interesting that it's like 99% there, and the thing runs and executes, yet the copy has typos.

Re: An upgraded dev experience in Google AI Studio

#17

Presumably Google AI Studio[1] and Google Firebase Studio[2] are made by different teams with very similar pitches, and Google is perfectly happy to have both of them exist, until it isn't: - AI Studio: "the fastest place to start building with the Gemini API" - Firebase Studio: "Prototype, build, deploy, and run full-stack, AI apps quickly" [1] https://aistudio.google.com/apps [2] https://firebase.google.com/

Wait until you hear about Google Vertex AI Studio.

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Re: An upgraded dev experience in Google AI Studio

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> Gemini 2.5 Pro is incredible at coding, so we’re excited to bring it to Google AI Studio’s native code editor. It’s tightly optimized with our Gen AI SDK so it’s easier to generate apps with a simple text, image, or video prompt. The new Build tab is now your gateway to quickly build and deploy AI-powered web apps. We’ve also launched new showcase examples to experiment with new models and more. This is exactly wha…

I agree. Until about 2005 it was code-on-device and run-on-device. The tools and languages were limited in absolute capabilities, but easy to understand and use. For about the past 20 years we've been in a total mess of code-on-device -> (nightmare of deployment complexity) -> run-on-cloud. We are finally entering the code-on-cloud and run-on-cloud stage. I'm hoping this will allow domain experts to more easily creat…

>We are finally entering the code-on-cloud and run-on-cloud stage.

Sounds like an absolute nightmare for freedom and autonomy.

Re: An upgraded dev experience in Google AI Studio

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> Gemini 2.5 Pro is incredible at coding, so we’re excited to bring it to Google AI Studio’s native code editor. It’s tightly optimized with our Gen AI SDK so it’s easier to generate apps with a simple text, image, or video prompt. The new Build tab is now your gateway to quickly build and deploy AI-powered web apps. We’ve also launched new showcase examples to experiment with new models and more. This is exactly wha…

This is why I think Rabbit is one of the most interesting startups around. If I could wave a wand and go pick any startup to go work at, it would be Rabbit.

Re: An upgraded dev experience in Google AI Studio

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> Gemini 2.5 Pro is incredible at coding, so we’re excited to bring it to Google AI Studio’s native code editor. It’s tightly optimized with our Gen AI SDK so it’s easier to generate apps with a simple text, image, or video prompt. The new Build tab is now your gateway to quickly build and deploy AI-powered web apps. We’ve also launched new showcase examples to experiment with new models and more. This is exactly wha…

This is why I think Rabbit is one of the most interesting startups around. If I could wave a wand and go pick any startup to go work at, it would be Rabbit.

Which Rabbit are you meaning? When I search for Rabbit AI I get a few hits and none of them seem like the most interesting startup around.
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