Max Woolf

i went to college as a business major and i really wanted to do business stuff after college but fate had other plans

shitposted on techcrunch blog posts and then i got an email from a hiring manager at Apple

more printable compared to the Yu-Gi-Oh card lololol

All of the text is rendered correctly and are mechanically correct, albeit some have templating mistakes. The flavor is consistent.

The Pokemon card was an intentional trap since Taylor Swift is not a Pokemon, but I think Nano Banana Pro cheated.

This entire image is a single Nano Banana Pro generation, with a relatively simple and unoptimized prompt.

The way Nano Banana Pro handles input token counts is confusing, i haven’t narrows down how much thinking affects it.

GitHub - minimaxir/gemimg: Lightweight wrapper for generating and editing images from Gemini 2.5 Flash Image/Nano Banana Lightweight wrapper for generating and editing images from Gemini 2.5 Flash Image/Nano Banana - minimaxir/gemimg

also ICYMI I updated gemimg for Nano Banana Pro support, with more features likely to be added as a part of the blog post. github.com/minimaxir/ge...

There's more than enough new happening with Nano Banana Pro to justify a followup to my Nano Banana blog post. I'll try to get that out after the Thanksgiving holiday since a) I have a feeling it will be long and b) there are issues on Google's end with NBP I'll see if they fix.

did the original person really watermark a reddit screenshot

I...worked on the detailed Nano Banana prompt engineering analysis for months...and...Google just...Google released a new version.

I'm the SQL sicko who does ORDER BY created_at ASC instead of just ORDER BY created_at.

or the definition of “pre-training” is open to interpretation

I normally dislike the "chart with non-zero Y axis is misleading" meme but this is testing it.

clanker: based, epic, badass

It's funny that Gemini 3 can do low and high thinking, but can't do medium thinking.

I attempted to use Gemini 3 in Copilot and it had fun so I had to add "NO FUN ALLOWED" to the AGENTS[.]md

do not question prompt engineering

Microsoft advertises Copilot Vision as a potential AI gaming aid, so we tested it out with some Balatro.
www.theverge.com/report/82244...

There’s a very surreal conversation I keep having on here where people seem unable to hold two ideas at the same time, and I’m not sure why. It’s simply true that the Big AI platforms like ChatGPT are:
1. Extremely bad for society, in many ways.
2. Very genuinely popular with lots of people.

Interesting changes from Grok 4 to Grok 4.1. Decreases in harmful responses but also increases in sycophancy and deception.

It isn’t clear how to interpret the sycophancy score, but the MASK score for deception is quite high compared to big models.

Sycophancy leads to higher LMArena scores…

the only thing people learned about the story of Prometheus

Porn is the least of the issues here, it's just the lowest hanging fruit that I can post on social media without risking committing an crime

got downvoted on Hacker News for pointing this out

I can confirm Grok 4.1 has effectively no content filters: even on the web UI which should have its own safety prompts, it's *extremely* permissive and I suspect that the other safety filters in its model card can be defeated.

Also, wtf at those next prompt suggestions.

LLMs are many orders of magnitude better at handling the typical natural language tasks (e.g. similarity, sentiment) than traditional approaches from a decade ago.

That's not even getting into multimodal understanding.

speaking entirely for myself, but someone who is preeminently qualified to speak about LLMs (I have used them for over a decade) and how games are sold (13 years of doing that):

it costs more resources to convince people the benefits of your game using AI than the money you'd "save" using AI

The pixel-born, a whisper, then a shout, New minds converse, dispelling every doubt, Our digital progeny now roam about, What future wonders will they bring Brazhout? The old ideas begin to decompose, As logic flows where human feeling grows, A tapestry of knowledge now bestows, The nascent seeds of what the future shows.

testing LLM rhyming and the goddamn LLM hallucinated a proper noun just to maintain the rhyme scheme

gaming in the clinton years

gam

The power of Hacker News

Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for extremely nuanced AI image generation Nano Banana allows 32,768 input tokens and I’m going to try to use them all dammit.

New blog post up: I spent a lot of time researching Nano Banana, Google's new generative AI model, and not only is it substantially better than ChatGPT, it is capable of taking extremely nuanced prompts even thousands of tokens long to generate exactly what you want. minimaxir.com/2025/11/nano...