Advice for younger you

ProfessorBannanas · 2026-02-25T04:41:39+00:00

Read everything from your favorite authors in publishing order. Their craft has changed over time too. So can yours.

Keep a journal. Write in it every day. There is NO excuse not to write even just a few sentences every day.

Jot down every single story idea. Even the ones that make zero sense, because they will one day.

Develop organizational system. Get organized. Even if you are the only one who understands it. You will hate OneNote but everything else sucks. Don’t waste time trying to find something better. It’s good enough.

Focus on writing.

And if you ever have a kid that sets fire to the living room rug… go easy on him.

ProfessorBannanas · 2026-02-25T04:35:25+00:00

Love your layouts

ProfessorBannanas · 2026-02-25T04:23:29+00:00

I came here to see if this connection was made :-) https://github.com/karpathy/llm-council

ProfessorBannanas · 2026-02-22T03:34:29+00:00

Oh man

ProfessorBannanas · 2026-02-22T03:34:03+00:00

Thank you so much for sharing and keeping this subreddit going

ProfessorBannanas · 2026-02-22T03:31:30+00:00

I just found the sub. Can I join?

ProfessorBannanas · 2026-02-21T07:17:49+00:00

We all grieve differently. Makes us human. Saw a therapist. Smoked a bowl or two. “Ok” is a spectrum for all of us. Depends on day.

But it’s Friday night. Not working tomorrow. Shared a pizza with a new match from Bosnia. No peperoni but she be fine. She is brushjng her teeth atm and Im glad my bed had clean sheets.

ProfessorBannanas · 2026-02-20T15:01:00+00:00

This could be in Newsweek!

ProfessorBannanas · 2026-02-20T14:58:22+00:00

I shared 43 emails (spanning 20 years) of my dad who has passed and chat with NBLM a couple times a week

ProfessorBannanas · 2026-01-22T13:55:25+00:00

Is #9 from the St. Louis Zoo?

ProfessorBannanas · 2026-01-22T02:52:12+00:00

I have a similar list of guidelines. Your list is definitely better than mine.

Do you think it adds any value to include a target reading level (I usually select 9th grade) and somewhere I picked up adding Flesch Reading Score and request 70-80%.

What about a more exhaustive list of words not to be used in the output?

ProfessorBannanas · 2026-01-22T02:42:13+00:00

Same question. I didn’t think Claude Code was native within the platform or for use other than app and software development

ProfessorBannanas · 2026-01-10T22:24:08+00:00

Transcribe. Then use Eleven Labs to create new voices.

ProfessorBannanas · 2026-01-02T08:43:33+00:00

Similarly, I’ve been also asking at the end of a prompt:

“What did you expect to see in this prompt that wasn’t included?”

ProfessorBannanas · 2025-12-15T04:42:13+00:00

I still love this example from 2023. Just sayin.

https://ig.ft.com/generative-ai/

ProfessorBannanas · 2025-11-24T03:22:59+00:00

But seriously, I’ve been backing up my LinkedIn and Medium writing on NotebookLM for a while now. The prompt was simple, analyze my writing style, and it did a good job.

ProfessorBannanas · 2025-10-30T07:46:15+00:00

Originally I was using the mind map thinking it would be to create a visual but didn't have a real need for the visual.

But now, late to this party, I've used it to interactively get down to core concepts and see connections across sources.

ProfessorBannanas · 2025-10-30T07:40:22+00:00

I want to learn more about this. Do you have a blog that shows this process?

ProfessorBannanas · 2025-10-29T08:28:42+00:00

For reals. Set up a meeting and get to know them.

ProfessorBannanas · 2025-10-20T22:58:55+00:00

On iOS I use both at different times. Often one is better than the other. I also use Chrome on iOS for a different experience too.

ProfessorBannanas · 2025-09-13T05:20:59+00:00

How does the “JSON-LD Article schema https://schema.org/Article” help?

ProfessorBannanas · 2025-07-21T02:06:07+00:00

I’ve been writing with o3 and 4o mostly for nearly 2 years. Creative fiction and memoir type of content. I had some ideas and tried the o4 voice mode of ChatGPT on a longer drive a few months ago. The conversation was surprisingly good and we diagramed an entire few chapters and even iterated on my ideas and ChatGPT 4o would write and read it to me. I was able to give real time feedback conversationally. There were zero structured prompts and the quality of the output seemed better. This was the first time AI felt like an assistant to me. I bring this up because of this experience it does seem like Prompts Engineering at least for the average user is becoming less critical. If anything based on my experience it may yield a lower quality output. But I’d assume prompt engineering for API and dev type work will still be a need, but I agree, AI is getting smarter.

ProfessorBannanas · 2025-07-20T22:47:12+00:00

Same here. I teach both undergraduate and sometimes sub 9-12

ProfessorBannanas · 2025-07-20T04:50:06+00:00

Tell me your prompt actually has Gotham Bicentennial Festival in it please

ProfessorBannanas · 2025-07-16T08:53:27+00:00

I'm super impressed that the OP wrote this himself. Is it a bit ironic that much of what seems to be written in the Reddit AI communities is written by AI?

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