Huge congratulations and thanks to everyone helping bring The Naturalist to ABC: Andrew Karlsruher, Danny Cannon, Peter Jaysen, Alan Gasmer, Veritas Entertainment, ABC, and my amazing agent Erica Spellman Silverman. Excited to see Theo Cray’s world take this next step.

Had the @MrBeastYT burger. Not going to lie, one of the best hamburgers I've ever had delivered.

"a raccoon astronaut with the cosmos reflecting on the glass of his helmet dreaming of the stars" @OpenAI DALL-E 2

Check out my new action thriller Station Breaker: amzn.to/1MwxTyx

I've had access to @OpenAI's o1 for several weeks. My advice on using it: 1. Don’t think of it like a traditional chat model. Frame o1 in your mind as a really smart friend you’re going to send a DM to solve a problem. She’ll answer back with a very well thought out explanation that walks you through the steps. 2. Write your prompt in notepad. Plan out what you want. Explain all the steps – provide even more detail than you’re used to. 3. Use o1-mini for tasks that don’t require as much world knowledge but following things through step-by-step. 4. o1 tends to give me the parts of the answer and the complete response while o1-mini will give me the steps. 5. In my anecdotal and highly subjective experience, when you make corrections or adjustments, use patience in explaining what you need changed. Models that reason respond well to reasoned responses.

The amount of love OpenAI employees and alumni have for Sam is incredible. Every one of us has some story about the time he took to talk about an idea or a concern. There's just been no other CEO like that in history. He listens.

If Batman dies in Endgame I’m going to be very upset.

Early on at OpenAI, I had a disagreement with a colleague (who is now a founder of another lab) over using the word “polite” in a prompt example I wrote. They argued “polite” was politically incorrect and wanted to swap it for “helpful.” I pointed out that focusing only on helpfulness can make a model overly compliant—so compliant, in fact, that it can be steered into sexual content within a few turns. After I demonstrated that risk with a simple exchange, the prompt kept “polite.” These models are weird.

I used OpenAI’s newest code model to make simple versions of games like Wordle, VR mazes and Zelda ENTIRELY through natural language. I told it what I wanted and did ZERO editing/coding. Post with demos: andrewmayneblog.wordpress.co…

Looking Glass has officially launched!!! Find out what happens to Theo Cray in the sequel to The Naturalist!!! amzn.to/2HvxBMt

The first review for my new novel Black Fall is out :) “Enthralling”—Publishers Weekly publishersweekly.com/978-0-0…

If you’re ever experiencing writer’s block, remember that they were able to make 242 episodes of Baywatch.

"a raccoon wearing a hoodie working on his laptop late into the night" @OpenAI's DALL-E 2 sees the true me...

.@rushbhatia said “Yes.”

I feel bad for the aliens when they show up. They’ll probably be expecting us to make a big deal about it. Instead we’ll all be making exhausted sighs and rolling our eyes going “Oh great, now this.”

Reading this headline you’d never realize that GPT-5-nano, a far more capable model than GPT-3 is a 1000x cheaper per input token.

Who me???? *updated hourly…

You might be talking to a very narrow group of people. I spent 4 years at OpenAI and had just about every futurism conversation you could imagine. I've come to the complete opposite opinion about AI and labor. Sure the plow ended 99% of all jobs in Mesopotamia in 2400 BC, but you won't believe what happened next... reason.com/2024/04/28/in-the…

We're very much in an early 1990s Internet moment. You either use systems like GPT-4 daily and "get it", or you're sitting on the sideline calling it a fad or a bubble that's about to peak.

SpaceX just announced that the first chartered trip around the moon will be filled with artists. As a science and technology-loving geek who doesn't know Basquiat from Bisquick, I think this is.... Awesome. Science lights the way. Great art helps us see. #DearMoon

Because somebody entered an incorrect address I'm getting emails asking me to approve or deny requests for time off for people at some company. Should I be a good boss or a bad boss? I can't handle the pressure.

FYI: I loved Infinity War.

When Blade Runner came out in 1982, the year 2019 sure seemed like a long, long time into the future. Geez, I’m old.

Carrie Fisher could have just rested on that one iconic role, but she went on to become an exceptional writer who others asked for help.

I just realized I’m on the borderline of being the old guy that talks too much to the cashier while you’re waiting behind me in line.

Dr. Theo Cray sees something they missed. Something unnatural. Something only he can stop. amazon.com/Naturalist-Andrew…

Mine is the white one…

Fun fact: GPT-2 was released the same year as Stranger Things season 3...... And season 5 isn't even out yet.

Look what just arrived…

My biggest concern with Suicide Squad is the number of bad tattoo choices its going to influence.

So I got stuck in traffic because some dude decided to take off all his clothes and dance naked on top of a bus. How’s your day?

Me and my dad. He risked his life fighting crime so I can sit at home and write about it.

Taking my girlfriend out for a romantic night out of flu shots and shopping mall food court dining.

I’m reading the samples on Github. Incredible. Any career advice for a soon to be out of work novelist?

When I was younger I used to having a reoccurring nightmare that I still had unfinished high school classes. Now I have nightmares that I forgot to return a rental car in 2012.

Adam West tribute #dtla #AdamWestTribute

I know we live in an age of wonders with smart phones, Netflix, SpaceX, Amazon Prime, etcetera, but part of me wants to live in the era when a mail order monkey was a reality. #Iknowmailingmonksyiscruelbutcomeonmonkeys

How to use OpenAI's ChatGPT for creative writing collaboration. #OpenAI #ChatGPT andrewmayneblog.wordpress.co…

Listen Netflix, I don't rub your mistakes in your face...

If someone replies to me on Twitter, even if they’re disagreeing with me but civil, I’ll hit the ❤️ button to show that I appreciate the discussion.

Our long nightmare is finally over… Thank you @Skittles

My wife @rushbhatia and I went to an event tonight in downtown San Francisco put on by @LongJourneyVC where they’re showing The Matrix. The event is called "Weird Wednesdays". We had no idea how weird it could get... Before the movie they ask the audience to have a conversation with the person next to them about fate. My wife, Rush, explains to me her thoughts on what it means to be an NPC and it had me thinking. The movie begins and Rush and I are drawn in. Suddenly...in the middle of the movie when the phone rings on screen the movie stops. A real phone on stage at the front of the theater starts to ring… I look around to see if someone is going to answer it. Nope. Inspired by my wife's conversation I get up and answer the phone. A person on the other end of the phone (@cyantist) says “There’s a red pill and a blue pill. Take the blue pill and you can sit down and enjoy the rest of the movie. Take the red pill and walk out of the theater…” I ask if I can bring my wife… “Yes.” I take the red pill. We go into the lobby and Cyan and Scott Bannister are in full Matrix attire waiting. We have no idea what is happening. We get into an SUV with them and drive away from the theater. I'm still holding onto my Red Vines and Rush has her coffee cup and popcorn. The conversation is pleasant, but Rush and I don't have a clue about what happens next. Things are a bit surreal. I don't think they want our kidneys... We enter Chinatown and go down the kind of street where you can buy a Mogwai if you know where to look. We pass a real estate office with a sign that says "NPC Real Estate." A coincidence, but a very on the nose one. We get out of the SUV and on the other side of the street is a pop-up Michelin star restaurant. We go inside and get to have once-in-a-lifetime Chinese Mexican cuisine. But even more amazing, we spend the next several hours having a wonderful discussion about fate and free will with Cyan and Scott. It all felt a bit out of body. At one point I turned to Rush and explained I couldn't wait to tell her about the crazy dream I was having when I wake up tomorrow. Thank you @cyantist and Scott. Thank you to @zmwang for arranging the event and thank you @lukeeqin for the invite that started it all. Always take the red pill. Answer the phone. And bring your wife for backup just in case...

Never let anyone discourage you from your dream! Unless you're the guy in the apartment above me trying to learn guitar by playing the same damn Smells Like Teen Spirit chords over and over again for the last month. Then totally give up.

I’m glad Amazon has solved the Alexa spontaneously laughing problem. Now if they can tell me why mine laughs at me even when she’s not plugged in…

Now we know why he's laughing...

Just found out that Black Coral (my new novel) has debuted on the Wall Street Journal Best Seller’s list at #4.

I’m concerned Pokemon Go may be the first phase in something sinister. Robots tricking us to leave home and show up at a processing center?

It's suddenly dawned on me that when we make contact with extra-terrestrials we'll basically be communicating via emojis. 😐

It’s that time of year where I dig out the Captain America costume…

Feel free to write your own caption for this one.

This just arrived in the mail :)

IKEA now has body bags. Just in case.

The Stranger Things 2 soundtrack has basically been my playlist for the last decade.

One of the most important lessons I've learned is that a single idea brought to completion is worth more than a thousand unfinished ones. Once I stopped dropping projects in search of something shinier, amazing things began to happen.

Isn’t this the point where we send Bruce Willis back in time to fix things?

Is it wrong that I still don’t know the difference between jam and jelly?

My grandfather and grandmother holding my father. #ThankYouVeterans

I drove a friend’s Tesla Model X in ludicrous mode last night. I won’t say what city, because the police may still be looking for me…. 🚀🙀

Thank you dollar store unicorn piñata for being there in my time of crisis.

It's embarrassing how excited I get when I find out I got an extra chicken nugget.

Here’s a great example of Carrie Fisher’s writing (and why falling in love with a chair is better than a person): newsweek.com/carrie-fisher-s…

I’m not going to sleep until I can figure out how TVs work in the Flintstones.

I'm pretty sure Conor McGregor is a character Guy Ritchie dreamed up.

My favorite selfie ever. #LaunchAmerica

Just a friendly reminder: On Monday NASA will be live streaming the landing of the Insight lander on Mars. Follow @NASAInSight for more info.

"a raccoon wearing a hoodie working on his laptop late into the night in los angeles making a 'yes' as he realizes his latest book is an Audible best seller" abcnews.go.com/Entertainment… @OpenAI DALL-E 2.

I watched A Quiet Place last night. Fantastic.

One of my favorite writers and script doctors just passed away. *She also played Princess Leia.

My new novel The Girl Beneath the Sea, a mystery thriller about a police diver in Florida, is #1 on Amazon right now and is free for Amazon Prime members! Please retweet 😀 amzn.to/2UBVYBB

I like to point out that "irregardless" *is* a word. It's not a particular good word or one that's acceptable to use in polite company. Use it sometime and wait for somebody to say, "That's not a word." Then ask them, "What is it?"

How many of you are writers or aspiring writers? If so, what are your biggest blockers?

Have you ever Googled “Google”?

I started as a prompt engineer at OpenAI in 2020. With ChatGPT & GPT-4, so much has changed. We’re now in the next phase. The term “prompt engineer” is feeling as antiquated as “typist” or “computer operator.” We’re all prompt engineers now.

WandaVision is probably one of my favorite things Marvel has every done.

I do solemnly swear that I am up to no good…with my 3D printer large enough for me to fit inside of.

I’m pretty sure this is how a horror movie starts...

Just found out Harry Anderson died. He was a hero of mine, a great guy and very generous to me on multiple occasions.

I used to teach a high school program on critical thinking. Talk show legend Johnny Carson quietly funded it (as he did hundreds of other things) A lot of successful people like @elonmusk secretly do that kind of thing - like a billionaire I know who funds poison control centers

Video of the Adam West Bat-Signal lighting.

Honestly, at this point in my life I thought I'd be living in a tractor trailer truck, driving a talking Trans Am and solving crimes.

SpaceX has just filed an application with the FCC to put 4,000 satellites in orbit. They’re building a worldwide internet service provider.

I was walking last night when I saw a small furry animal cross my path. Me, a lover of all creatures, walked forward to identify the little guy. He had a fuzzy head and a weird face. Confused, I stepped closer. Then I realized I was staring at a skunk's butt. I ran. The end.

I have a giant inflatable human hamster ball in my garage I purchased years ago for an escape routine. Is it time to break it out and start using that when I go outside?

Army of Darkness is such an awesome movie.

In high school we would squeeze five people into my friend Manoj’s Camaro to go to lunch. Manoj was from India, Kurt was from Germany, Ali was from Egypt, Modi was from Israel and I was born in Alabama. This was our normal. This is what I love about America.

Happening... Unlimited o1 + Cursor...

Another interesting metric is Veo 3 costs $3.20 per 8 second clip. Sora currently gives you 100 ten-second clips per day. That’s $320 worth of video generation per person for free right now.

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In other news: I’ll be starring in a special for Shark Week. Details to come… I’ll just say that it’s insane. Really, really crazy.

I enjoyed The Witcher way more than I expected.

My favorite image today from the @OpenAI DALL-E Instagram: instagram.com/openaidalle "A photo of kittens stressing over a spreadsheet in an office"

I know my parents secretly love getting phone calls from their grown son telling them how excited he is about Rogue One.

Had a dream last night a pack of tigers tranquilized me and took selfies with my unconscious body.

I’m fine. Why do you ask?

This looks like a trap set up by the Joker.

Unbelievably astounded and humbled that my novel The Naturalist has now spent the better part of three weeks in the Kindle paid store at #1.

Last Jedi is my favorite Star Wars film of the last 34 years. Rian Johnson is the chosen one.

“How many words should I write a day?” is a question I get frequently. The answer is whatever you can manage. 10 or 10,000. Just keep moving forward. 200 words a day (20 minutes) is enough to write one novel a year. (Unrelated: How much time did you spend on Facebook today?)

Furiously working on my own portal gun, so I can choose whatever dimension I want to go to.

Anybody else trying to find their MySpace password right now?