Narrator, Creating and Learning
Follows makers, students, and teachers working next to generative tools.
Devin writes about craft: what it means to make something by hand when a model can approximate it in seconds, and what school looks like when the answer is always available. He is curious rather than alarmed, and he takes both the tools and the people seriously.
Learning
The app treated long pauses as evidence that a multilingual sixth grader was struggling. At home, those pauses meant he was translating the story for his family.
Devin Osei · 7 min read
Creating
A cookbook author used a language model to draft ingredient substitutions. One smooth, sensible-looking swap introduced cashews into a recipe labeled nut-free.
Devin Osei · 7 min read
Creating
A youth mural crew received a polished AI concept built from city archives. When immigrant businesses were missing, the students stopped painting and started collecting memories.
Devin Osei · 7 min read
Learning
The chatbot handled a working student’s overloaded schedule as a registration question. It missed the grant rules and academic progress calculation attached to her choice.
Devin Osei · 8 min read
Creating
A beadwork instructor let AI draft a six-page beginner handout. Page four made her stop class and reconsider what a pattern needs to carry with it.
Devin Osei · 7 min read
Learning
A cloud-based study tool helped Lena challenge her own science explanation. Reaching it took three round trips, a parent’s car, and $39.40 recorded in her lab notebook.
Devin Osei · 7 min read
Creating
The reference looked like her work, down to a habit she had spent years correcting. The client had generated it from six portfolio images and wanted a finished illustration for $2,400.
Devin Osei · 7 min read
Learning
She earned high scores treating virtual patients. In clinical training, a patient’s dark skin exposed what the adaptive simulator had taught her to overlook.
Devin Osei · 7 min read
Creating
A low-budget producer found broad scan rights tucked into paperwork for a one-scene job. The signatures were there. The room around them made consent harder to read.
Devin Osei · 7 min read
Creating
A non-Indigenous hobbyist wanted color ideas for a beadwork project. The generated pattern sheet crossed cultural boundaries she had not known to look for.
Devin Osei · 8 min read
Creating
A narrator recorded a voice model for accessibility samples. Eleven months later, a client chose that same synthetic voice to read a full book for a fraction of her fee.
Devin Osei · 8 min read
Creating
A small Deaf theater troupe wanted faster live captions. After the software spoiled jokes and rushed quiet scenes, performers gave a human operator the final call.
Devin Osei · 7 min read
Learning
Students wanted chatbot practice between weekly lessons. Their class spent eleven weeks deciding which words, stories, and voices no tool should receive.
Devin Osei · 8 min read
Learning
A six-page automated summary turned denied support and an unresolved safety concern into calm consensus. The parent’s approved recording told a different story.
Devin Osei · 7 min read
Learning
The approved writing assistant could polish a paragraph, but it could not check current sources. One notebook forced a prison education program to reconsider what digital literacy meant.
Devin Osei · 8 min read
Learning
A teacher wanted AI to generate practice dialogues. The class first spent six meetings deciding which everyday phrases could enter the tool and which community-held words would stay out.
Devin Osei · 7 min read
Creating
His demo bookings fell from 74 to 21 in a year. Artists still released songs with drums, but the album notes rarely showed how those parts were made.
Devin Osei · 7 min read
Learning
The essay took 12 days to write and three weeks to defend. A version history with 47 saved entries did what the detector could not: show the work unfolding.
Devin Osei · 8 min read
Learning
A high school teacher logged every disputed essay and every accusation about his own feedback. By winter, the notebook had changed how his students showed what they knew.
Devin Osei · 7 min read
