Paige Bailey (webpaige.dev)

👋 Greetings + welcome, new BlueSky-gazers! I'm an engineer working on the developer experience for @Google's AI tools, especially aistudio.google.com, its API keys, @GoogleColab, Gemma open-source models, @Kaggle, and JAX. I post use cases, quick technical overviews, and images of hiking trips. 😀

open-source will always win

🐈 Gobsmacked by the creativity and the consistency in the fal x Sequoia x DeepMind 72-hour hackathon, organized by Cerebral Valley! Huge congrats to Christian Luoma for their 1st place win. 👇 Watch their short film below (and don't expect to get sleep tonight!): www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc4Q...

👋 is there an eval for ai-driven kernel *maintenance*? not generation, but migration. like, cuda→hip, gfx942→gfx950, rocm n→n+1, etc. migration has a built-in verifier (the old kernel is the spec), so it should be way more benchmarkable than greenfield kernel generation who's working on this

walked up to church this morning and got hit with "RESTRICTED AREA: CONSTRUCTION WORK IN PROGRESS" like yes. that is in fact why i'm here 🏗️ god's not done with me yet 😌❤️

👋 Anyone else going to be at @acmsiggraph.bsky.social later this month? I'll be around on July 21-22nd to give a workshop and for the Google DeepMind "Dear Upstairs Neighbors" reception, and would love to learn more about what you're working on! (DMs open for grabbing coffee or a walk. 💓)

horror story in five words: "CUDA driver version is insufficient"

the kids who would've spent their 20s designing programming languages are about to rediscover what nerds did before compilers existed: building entire middle-earths to contain their type systems tolkien-core. we're going back the man was just a compiler nerd with no VC funding

🍌 🐌 Banana slugs, giant redwoods, petrified forests, geysers, waterfalls, logs that almost-but-not-quite break when you walk across them 😅, fainting goats, remote veggie-forward 7th-day adventist towns, and some of the most beautiful stars I've ever seen. 🇺🇸 blessed to live here, happy 4th! 🎆

...and even better: they're using JAX (with Flax), @ollamabot.bsky.social, and @mistralai.bsky.social! 😁🍔

✨📚 10/10 recommend tumbling down the @sfpubliclibrary.bsky.social digital archive rabbit hole! Looking at 1900s SF gives the exact same energy as seeing your grandparents' high school photos - you completely recognize the bone structure and the street corners, but absolutely nothing else.

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💗 NanoBanana 2 Lite is my go-to now for image generation and editing! Very, *very* high quality, at only a small fraction of the price of our other image editing models. 🙌 Bonus: Omni is now available via the API! Create and edit *even videos* with natural language: 🔗 blog.google/innovation-a...

🐦 Did you know there's a non-profit bird rescue in the Bay Area called Mickaboo Rescue? They did a pop-up today at the American Heritage Museum in Palo Alto! I loved Hanson the parakeet and Captain Jack. www.mickaboo.org

🙌 Huge crowd for the Google DeepMind / HUD Frontier / RSI RL Environments hackathon at @ycombinator.bsky.social! Cosponsors also include Exa, Modal, @anthropic.com, Fireworks AI, MiniMax, and more. Can't wait to see what people build with Google AI Studio and Gemma 4!

no one is monitoring the situation harder than me and the 40+ guys huddled around the one (!!!) tv playing the knicks game in jfk terminal 5

🎶 Bought a ticket to go see The Feelies play "Crazy Rhythms" in its entirety in NYC this Saturday, but unfortunately can't go. 🥺 Anyone want the ticket (free)? It should be an amazing time, one of my favorite albums! Just want it to go to someone who'd enjoy it. m.soundcloud.com/dynamicwebpa...

#googleio let's do it

hoping everyone caught a sunset with someone they love today ❤️ 🌇

CLIFF STOLL (of LBNL and Cuckoo's Egg fame) IS SPEAKING AT KPMG AND HE IS STILL USING AN OVERHEAD SLIDE PROJECTOR

"it used to require 3 hours and a blood sacrifice just to rotate your x-axis labels by 45 degrees"

🎮🤩 The California College of Arts Game Design showcase is *so cool*, and very robotics and AI-pilled this season! The open house ends today, but opened up their entire lab to play computer games, console games, and board games. Loved the creative and beautiful work from these students!

👀🎥 Filming today with Duchess and @harrisonjobe.bsky.social on Google's MTV campus! Feeling very nostalgic, love seeing the old Google Brain buildings in the background – and think y'all will be excited about what's coming. 🥹🧠

"That era of the internet is ending – not because the web is dying, but because the way we build things is radically changing." It's official, y'all: my teenage bedroom and high school flip phone belong in a museum. 🥹❤️

Can't say that I'm a metalhead, but... ✨🎬😄 Seeing how developers are using the Gemini APIs with Lyria + Veo to push the boundaries of music video generation is *very, very rad*. Step-by-step guide and details in the Reddit link below. Keep building things like this! www.reddit.com/r/GeminiAI/c...

OH: just like autonomous cars are still designed to look exactly like regular human-driven cars (for now), the only reason agentic IDEs still look/feel like traditional IDEs is because developers feel comfortable using them, and because dev infra has been built up around them

💡ai.dev and the Gemini app are now options on Ideabrowser for vibe-coding your next business! Am going to go ahead and call dibs on the idea to detect decay of open-source projects (and to expand it out, to add new OSS tools created by agents that could be repurposed across multiple projects):

I just talked with my cousin who was doing their first year in CS and is thinking about changing because of this kind of thing Wild to me that it's something they've seriously considered

There are kids who entered into university right before ChatGPT was released (Nov. 2022) who are just now exiting, into a completely different world. I wonder what percentage changed their majors, what percentage dropped out, what percentage started new companies? wild timelines, y'all 😶‍🌫️

✨ Future of Mathematics and AI Symposium this weekend, featuring so many greats: Sergei Dukov, Caltech Adam Brown, DeepMind Thang Luong, DeepMind Ravi Vakil, Stanford Sanjeev Arora, Princeton Deirdre Haskell, Fields Institute Terence Tao, UCLA Ravi Vakil, Stanford Maryna Viazovska, EPFL

heard it here first

The ideal model is the smallest one that can still do the job. :)

The photos from my ai.dev + Google DeepMind session @sxsw.com are in! 🤩

This is huge. I like how the result looks and the complexity of the animation AI still feels like ✨magic✨

Continuously impressed with what ai.dev 's Gemini models + code execution can do! 🧬🧫 Just created this animated GIF with a single prompt ("Create and display a step-by-step GIF of a cell going through mitosis."), which pulls in data visualization and analysis libraries like Pillow and matplotlib:

✅ tickets acquired for ZEP in sf this June, g'night y'all whatszep.bandcamp.com/album/nobody

What a way to wrap up AI Dev '26! 🎉 Huge thanks to the @deeplearningai.bsky.social team for having me close out the conference with a keynote and workshop. We got completely into the weeds on ai.dev, Antigravity, and our newest Gemini and Gemma 4 models. 🙏 Gary Brandeleer for the awesome photos!