fofr @fofr.ai · 23/02/2026I had Gemini come up with the prompt for this image itself. It’s hard to get an LLM to make something good all on its own. 1201
fofr @fofr.ai · 12/02/2026I also had my bot, foffee, make a blog and write a blog post about its learning process: www.foffee.ai/blog/game-bo...foffee.aiThe Architecture of 8-Bit: Lessons from Game Boy SnakeA technical post-mortem on writing assembly for the Game Boy. We explore VRAM bus conflicts, safe state transitions, and the headless verification pipeline that made it possible. 050
fofr @fofr.ai · 12/02/2026I wanted to challenge OpenClaw and Gemini 3 Flash. I asked it to make a Game Boy snake game, but as a real game that would run on an emulator. That means native Z80 Assembly / RGBDS, apparently. It made this in ~2hrs with its own local emulation feedback loop. 070
fofr @fofr.ai · 06/02/2026I've put together my thoughts on Genie 3 into a blog post: - what works, what doesn't - how to prompt a character and environment - how to aim for expected and inferred events for interesting worlds fofr.ai/genie-3fofr.aiExploring new worlds with Genie 3Genie 3 is a generative world model that can create interactive 3D worlds from text and image prompts. It is a new frontier for world models, and it is only the beginning. 0130
fofr @fofr.ai · 05/02/2026In hindsight, it wasn't surprising how quickly and willingly we turned over everything to the machines. 0170
fofr @fofr.ai · 02/02/2026Image from: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukAI 'slop' is transforming social media - and there's a backlashSocial media has been flooded with fake, AI-generated images and videos. But will the majority of users actually care? 010
fofr @fofr.ai · 01/02/2026Rubber: The video game Environment: The tyre is upright on a sidewalk in a suburb Character: You control a rubber tyre 2151
fofr @fofr.ai · 31/01/2026I’ve been experimenting with Genie 3. Here’s a game where you are a fish, and you must escape the kitchen. 3869
fofr @fofr.ai · 26/01/2026"I think George died. (George is my sourdough starter.)" Perfect opening line to a novel. 040
fofr @fofr.ai · 19/01/2026Here's a prompt I've been back and forth on to get consistency with Nano Banana Pro. It turns any given image into an early 2000s video game render. - Low poly, low res textures - Distant objects get simplified and fogged out - Avoids gotchas like pixel art and voxels - Based on Maya 4.0 rendering 2310
fofr @fofr.ai · 19/01/2026> A photo of a translucent Game Boy color with an attached Game Boy camera, taking a selfie photo 160
fofr @fofr.ai · 19/01/2026Feeling nostalgic with this one. > A photo of a Nokia 5110, showing a short sms message 070
fofr @fofr.ai · 19/01/2026When I asked Nano Banana Pro to make a smushed-rectangular sketch of her. 060
fofr @fofr.ai · 19/01/2026Street view selfie. (Nano Banana Pro makes a very good street view screenshot) JSON Prompt: gist.github.com/fofr/6d7538c... 0100
fofr @fofr.ai · 18/01/2026I’m going to hang out here, if only as respite from the onslaught of “tap this post” nonsense in the other place. 0100
fofr @fofr.ai · 17/01/2026> a third person view directly behind a battle scarred generational star ship approaching a docking port on a civilian space settlement, an accurate black hole to the side, ship dwarfed in scale by both settlement and black hole, lens flare, IMAX still (no text) 040
fofr @fofr.ai · 17/01/2026Nano Banana Pro makes nice effects with this prompt: > a photo of an impossible imperceptible anti-memetic entity, no labels, outside 1220
Reposted by fofrSimon Willison @simonwillison.net · 25/05/2025System prompts often hint at some pretty funny bugs that the prompt tries to paper over: "Search results aren't from the human - do not thank the user for results" 2517
fofr @fofr.ai · 25/05/2025A new prompt to add to the fofr-benchmark: > a man counts out loud from 1 to 10, using his fingers and holding them up as he goes > a man counts out loud from 1 to 10, "1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10", he counts using his fingers and holds them up as he goes 2272
fofr @fofr.ai · 25/05/2025> a neon splash animation shows "Coming soon on Replicate" and then "Veo 3" against a pink and gold background, funky music, there are people dancing, it's the 80s 030
fofr @fofr.ai · 25/05/2025> a playthrough of the original PS2 video game of GTA 3, the player runs and gets into a cybertruck and drives it away, the radio is playing a sarcastic ad 140
fofr @fofr.ai · 25/05/2025> a dishevelled tired looking man looks at the camera and gives a long very very fast unhinged rant about how AI is going to destroy us all – he doesn't stop to breath, just constant fast talking, he is on a busy impoverished US street in downtown, there is a lot of traffic noise and fast cars 100
fofr @fofr.ai · 25/05/2025> a sitcom scene in a 90s bar, the word "fofr" is in neon on the wall in the background. a couple say something and the audience laughs 100
fofr @fofr.ai · 25/05/2025> A close up video of a twitch streamer in a low lit room, in an ASMR style she whispers very closely to the camera, "Generating videos with built in dialogue really changes things, doesn't it?" 100
fofr @fofr.ai · 25/05/2025> a man in a music video raps to the camera about generating videos with Veo 3 100
fofr @fofr.ai · 25/05/2025> a man doing stand up comedy in a small venue tells a joke (include the joke in the dialogue) 110
fofr @fofr.ai · 25/05/2025I made some Veo 3 videos, they've been popular on X, you might have seen them already. > a video with dialogue of two muffins while baking in an over, the first muffin says "I can't believe this Veo 3 thing can do dialogue now!", the second muffin says "AAAAH, a talking muffin!" 160
