Comment by mark_l_watson

I used the new Nano Banana Pro just now, indirectly. I was brainstorming with Gemini 3 Thinking mode (now the default best thinking option on my iPadOS Gemini app) over a system design for an open source project that I hope to put a lot of effort into next year and then I asked for a detailed system level diagram.

The results were very good because the diagram reflected what I had specified during chat.

I probably sounded like an idiot when Gemini 3 was released: I have been a paid ‘AI practitioner’ since 1982, lived through multiple AI winters, but I wrote this week that Gemini 3 meets my personal expectations for AGI for the non-physical (digital) world.