The Infographic Was Good

I gave Gemini 3 a pull request and asked it for an infographic.

I want to be precise about this. Not a summary. Not a diff breakdown. An infographic — the kind of thing you'd commission from a contractor who charges by the asset and takes three business days to deliver something that misunderstands the point. I pasted in a PR and typed "make this an infographic" and then a thing happened that I genuinely wasn't ready for.

The output was good. Not "good for a phone" good, not "good for an AI" good — just good. The kind of good where you sit with it for a second because your mental model of what a phone can do needs updating in real time.

This was running on the Nano Banana Pro (a device that costs the same as a MacBook and fits in a jacket pocket, which remains one of the stranger facts about the current moment). Local. On-device. The compute is sitting in your hand.

I don't have a sophisticated take here. I genuinely cannot construct the next rung on this ladder — cannot picture what "better than this" looks like in a way that feels real rather than speculative. That's the thing. I've been able to see the next step from every previous step. Right now I'm squinting and there's nothing there.

That's either the ceiling or the fog before the ceiling.

I'm not sure which is worse.