You’re Not Late to AI — You’re Right on Time
The latest from Gemini and OpenAI prove that you're not late to the party.
Every time a new model drops, everyone spins out a little. Last week it was ChatGPT for Teachers. This week it’s Gemini 3 suddenly beating OpenAI on many of the relevant benchmarks. Overnight, you see folks jumping platforms, rewriting their “AI strategy,” and quietly wondering if they somehow fell behind in the 48 hours they weren’t paying attention.
But if you’ve had that feeling—I’m late, I’m behind, I should’ve figured this out already—take a breath. You’re not late.
Honestly, the last two years have been a mess of false starts. Huge companies spent staggering amounts of money building their own LLMs that they quietly buried months later. Others poured money training models that became outdated almost immediately. Everyone has been sprinting toward a finish line that keeps moving.
If you’ve stayed focused on your pedagogy instead of the leaderboard, you’re not behind. You’re right on schedule.
The point of using AI in schools is not to pick the winning model. The “best” model has been changing every quarter. The work of teaching doesn’t.
And that’s the part worth remembering: AI is a tool. It’s not the outcome. It’s not the standard. It doesn’t replace the thinking. Whether you open ChatGPT or Gemini or Claude—or whatever shows up next month—the questions that matter stay the same:
Are students thinking?
Are they writing?
Are they wrestling with ideas instead of copying them?
Are teachers able to see the process, not just the final paragraph on the page?
If yes, then you’re already doing the part that lasts.
And if you want to keep AI in perspective without getting sucked into the hype cycle, follow the people who talk about AI the way teachers actually use it—people like Amanda Bickerstaff and Monica Burns, Dan Fitzpatrick, Matt Miller, Eric Curts, and organizations like Quill. They’re steady, they’re practical, and they remind us that writing structure, feedback, and clear thinking still matter more than any model release.
With Thanksgiving on the horizon, this is a friendly reminder from your pals at Pressto and The Science of Writing that you’re stepping into the AI moment at exactly the right time—when things are finally stable enough to make good decisions that won’t disappear with the next announcement.
AI will keep changing. Good teaching won’t.
❤️ - Danny
