The real annoying thing about Claude Opus 4.5 is that it's impossible to publicly say "Opus 4.5 is an order of magnitude better than coding LLMs released just months before it" without sounding like a AI hype booster clickbaiting, but it's the counterintuitive truth, to my personal frustration.

X really, really does not like Simon's post which isn't what I expected but in hindsight should have expected.

December 2025 update on my Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/146623...

New blog post up: I've done thorough testing of Nano Banana Pro with *many* examples on highly complicated prompts, and Nano Banana Pro nailed most of them. That said, there are caveats, notably around cost, generation speed, and a focus on realism. minimaxir.com/2025/12/nano...

I came back to social media since my mood had finally improved but now there is more related drama so I shall continue said break

i derive essentially 0 pride or sense of accomplishment from getting all of my brackets right while writing 100 lines of boilerplate and am totally fine with losing that skill

if OpenAI releases a new AI image model: a) I'll be mad I got sidetracked on my Nano Banana Pro blog post b) I atleast have some banger image generation test cases and points of comparison

I have prototyped 5 new game ideas over the past day using Claude Code and I have not had this much fun with a computer since I learned BASIC on my Apple II when I was 9

also, creating this package was a good reason to finally learn how to actually build Python wheels correctly for all platforms and Python versions instead of just creating a sdist like a caveman

I just released a new Python package (that's actually a Rust package): icon-to-image, which allows rendering Font Awesome icons to images *very* fast at an extremely high quality! github.com/minimaxir/ic...

December 2025 update on my Patreon www.patreon.com/posts/145253...

I lost sleep due to The Drama and seeing many people that I genuinely respect be assholes, so I'm taking another break from social media all-together.

8 hours later and the drama is now splintering bsky.app/profile/jwup...

looks like this post broke out of the AI bubble, if you replied to it I suggest you lock down your replies bsky.app/profile/mits...

Nano Banana Pro can apparently surface *specific* font faces/weights.

why is Facebook so bad at making AI images

Ran my maximal IP infringement test prompt through Flux 2 Pro, and, uh.

Are we not even making our own disinformation? What happened to American manufacturing?

October+November 2025 Update on my Patreon www.patreon.com/posts/144253...

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

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

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.

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.

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…

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.

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

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

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...

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...

uh www.reddit.com/r/BestofRedd...

LLMs when you set temperature = 2.0

lol daringfireball.net/2025/11/chat...

My 25 minute Nano Banana blog post will be up tomorrow, in which I highlight a funny failure state.

OpenAI's announcement of GPT-5.1 immediately triggered the flame war detector on Hacker News, which is fun.

i am begging every skeptic to find some middle ground, any middle ground at all, between rejecting speculation as sci-fi and refusing to speculate even slightly about what happens next

i kinda want to try "this is your last chance to dodge a block" as a prompt engineering technique.

Sure, an individual subscriber of a blocklist is not enduring a significant harm if they are missing content from one person due to a false positive. An individual person who is unable to appeal being structurally blocked by unaccountable parties could be, though. And that does happen.

totally agree with Will - but Bluesky is well past the point of "an open commons". most of its highly engaged audience prioritize their own local communities sensitivities vs shared discourse most of the users who might see margaret or giada's complaints here would see it as a feature, not a bug

quote tweets here are very very funny

It’s real

I posted on /r/sanfrancisco how my Safeway redesigned so you can't leave without triggering an alarm unless you buy something and a surprising number of replies are "just trigger the alarm nerd" I'm a terrible San Franciscan.

if the dislikes are attributable (meaning you can see who disliked stuff) it’s going to cause a lot of drama and likely see negative patterns on large group engagement if the dislikes are hidden, it’s going to cause a lot of drama but mostly distrust towards the network & admins so win/win

I'm anti-anti-anti AI I think. It probably could be used in responsible ways for many applications, but it's appropriate that it face stiff headwinds when doing so to keep the people who want to use it honest. The skepticism is healthy.

It's annoying that self-aware funny instances of AI context collapse now are filled with replies of THAT'S WHAT YOU GET FOR USING AI YOU IDIOT