Testing the image generation features of Flow, now available in Google AI Pro. Findings on the He/She pronoun issue, the effectiveness of natural English prompts, and how to use Flow vs Gem.
After reporting that Nano Banana Pro wasn't available even with a Gemini Pro subscription, it finally rolled out — here's what character-consistent image generation actually looks like in practice.
A record of designing prompts to make Gemini's image generation correctly draw a side ponytail, and building a Gem using a full 360° set of reference images.
I started tweaking Claude Code's settings files to stop the constant permission prompts, and fell into a rabbit hole. When the official docs say permissions 'can be bypassed' and call them 'tricky,' perfect control is probably not the goal.